One of the best low cost habitat improvements I do is to mow the flat under the oak trees that is close to the foot plot. The deer love it once the acorns start dropping, it also rids the area of tall grasses and lets the patches of clover in the pasture grow a little more too.
Good read. Lots of good recommendations for sweat equity. I don't know about promoting the growth of honey suckle though. Isn't it invasive?
I could see honeysuckle getting out of control and being an issue. However, we don't have very much of it at all. That picture is actually the only stand on the whole property and the deer love it. So I trimmed some trees and allowed it to bloom out.
Honey suckle is like the plague around here. Very prolific and the birds seem to love to eat the seeds (which give them virtually no nutritional value) and spread them everywhere.
Honeysuckle like the vine with little orange flowers in it? My wife buys them for the trellis by the water garden. Invasive specie that we pay for kinda like the water hycian plants she buys.
That's Japanese honeysuckle...I believe the article is talking about bush honeysuckle. Both are a huge problem here in Ohio.
