Your 2022 land projects.....

Looking good. I'm really torn on where to place my New stand for a first sit.
The sky is angry and battle ship grey. Thunder is getting very close and finally a light sprinkle with no wind.
Got waylayed and forgot to post...so much for a storm barely got drive wet.

 

Went down and took pics of lower field. No rain makes it in sad shape but let's hope something happens for the new planting. Feed corn should be " hide me " height by season . The birds left me just two persimmon. I will spray the failed corn areas with Round up and over seed it.

 

Finished that plot up with rest of beans and some rape. The stuff I did the other day is starting germinate already. Tried raking rape in around gypsy blind but it started to rain. I don't think it will work though because the ground was rock hard there.. we shall see

 

The last plot I planted is coming in nicely, hopefully the rain doesn’t stop. Need to give it a big shot of nitrogen when it rains next time.

 

Went ahead and fertilized the plots and seeded in some bare spots since they are calling for 85% chance of rain tonight. Here’s a couple pictures of one of the throw and grow plots, turning out better than I thought it would

 

Looking great...took some wood down to blind and walked through the bean Aeroflot check it out. Pics is in the disclosure thread. I was,correct in how deer would use it. They're n t through nipping just the tops of beans and weeds. The one thing I did not count on was....it's a bedding area now there are many beds in it.
So I shored up the sides of a ground blind 20 yards away and looked for some good saddle sets

 

Went and mowed one of the clover plots, way over due to say the least. At least I got it before everything went to seed…. Tons of really good looking clover in there but it’s really hard to see.

 

Looking great! I like that Blind too.
We had a really nice rain last night and its thundering now. Went out to check fields, corns looking really good as tall as me now in most places. The beans are sprouting in all areas but a couple of tree lines. Brassica not too much in lower area and lots on the hill. There are some really big foot prints in the plot.
I also pulled many of the wild grapes,which are loaded with ripe and green grapes out of the road side pines. I hung these over lower beaches for deer to eat and to help block gaps that give view into field. Had 2 guys at different times drive by on all terrain vehicles going very slow peeking in. LOL faces as they lowered heads to look and there I was looking back at them. Not young guys either one was at least in mid 40's to 50. The other late 20's to 30ish.

 

Arrowflinger I want to thank you for showing your land projects. I do these threads to to not only document my successes and fails but to enjoy what others are doing. Thank you for the glimpse into your efforts. I'm thinking you'll tags nice buck this year good luck.

 

Your welcome, you do a lot more than I do! I also enjoy seeing what everyone else is doing and try to learn a few things along the way. I hope you have a great season too. I really enjoy doing all this just as much as hunting, maybe even more. I personally have seen the benefits of all the hard work that I have put in over the years with the deer herd, that in itself is rewarding to me.

 

Went and checked out the 3 other plots today, one is doing very good, the others have some catching up to do. Although the reseeding I did last week is starting to germinate so in another week or two it should be better.

 

We're getting rain now and more bad n s are popping up with the brassica just starting to germinate in some not showing at all.in otherwise and getting pounded down by the rain in the rest. The weed spring bean plantings are getting hit much harder now. That said not mowed because much is hiding in the weeds so they seem to be picking here and there. This is the a t actually the corpses will readily sprout leaf.. I'll have to admit I'm now getting curious about what's visiting. All of the various berry patches are getting hit too. They love the leaves.
Oh the beans and brassica in last year's shade bean experimental plot are doing fantastic.

 

Pics. Upper fall bean and one section of lower dry bean. Lower is just starting with recent rains upper is well on its way. More rain coming in about two days.

 

Got a 1/2 last week and 1/2" last night.
Brassica are gonna pop now.
Deer are already hammering the pumpkins/squash.
For what grew this year (dismal) I'm questing they will be gone by the time I star hunting in late October.
Just a strange growing year here?

 

Well,got up to the land yesterday with the new mower. It was a day.

Got the bottom plot mowed off, the foxtail was about 3 foot tall. Finishing up the last couple passes and all of a sudden the mower disengaged and smoke everywhere, smell of burning rubber. Think a blew a belt couldn't really tell as the belts on the Swishers are under a bolted plate.

So, loaded it back on the trailer, then sprayed that plot off with gly and seeded it with Hancock fall and winter blend. Looks pretty good, got a new Camera up there as well. First two picks are before and after.

Got to the top 2.5 acre plot... And couldn't do much. The Forbes/weeds were 5 feet tall in some places, but next summer I can do better now that I have a mower. Drove through it all to start knocking down and sprayed it hard, hopefully start killing it off so I can get the mower fixed and get it mowed up. Got a good rain in last night for the stuff I did seed, wish I could have gotten it all done. They have seemed to lover the browse and cover this spring/summer, so I don't think it was a terrible strategy. Definitely need to cover my grass screen with some pre-emergence for next year to help eliminate the competition for them, they definitely haven't done as well this year as last. The real world stuff lists some thing you can use, going to be better with that next year. Last pick is the overgrown jungle up to my blind. Planning on mowing and then reseadinh clove and my brassica blend this next week.


Always an adventure.

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I have garden carving and ornamental pumpkin that are doing well I should be getting at least 12 carvers to give away this year and the ornamental will be at least a half dozen or more.
Now I have a big compost pile in the garden area fencing and right across from a favourite tree stand. It is growing some of the best butternut squash I've seen....better than the ones I planted. The vines have grown through the fencing and there are many butternut growing amongst the beans and weeds in the plot. That compost is also growing some great tomatoes. No idea what they are. The deer love butternut squash,I found out the hard way....lol

 

That is a nice looking area. Fox tail, man! that seed last forever in the ground it is what's choking out a bunch of the corn plot in the big lower field....was going to spray and seed but I'm really done until next year's....The there is something up with the sprays I have. All stored in the basement so never froze. The grounds work was bought this year. The 2-4db did some strange things...killed some beans and not others, a lot of both soybean and the cow peas were stunted a long time then took off. Did not kill two major weeds. Names slip my mind(purslain) a succulent vine you can eat and the other has tiny white flowers with bright yellow centres and branching with fuzzy greens. It is also suppose to stop Braddock growth for up to 5 years...I have old turnip and radish seed growing where I sprayed . So I walked the rape seed over all bare spots...it's all sprouted..go figure. I did 3 spray Downs with glysophate in the tree plot and still filled up in weeds. Not happy with sprays this year

 

Finally got some tree work done. Had a couple of big ones that could be crushers with existing trunk issues. One right next to the gypsy blind and a beech that hung up on another beech. Well that one is going to have to get winched down when the Gator is finally fixed. Then two other maple with trunk rot next to trails.. That done I hit the wild plum that got out of control..jobs well done. Sectioned logs 5' the managed to flip them end to end out of the way. Talk about weight lifting ! One I just sectioned and haven't moved yet in for lunch.

I just fixed the kindle mistakes so will add .....that I DR'd the main trail to garden stand after finishing the garden mowing. .

 

So I made a good choice planting these beans in several different areas in spring and fall. The chicken and beef farmer behind us cut their WW but then never replanted anything else and for some odd reason did not put clover in the WW as a succession crop. The beef farmers hay field is about spent as far as being a very good field. This coupled with corn being the dairy farmers crop around us now has the deer visiting us regularly. They are topping the waist high beans. This has them sprouting and branching getting even bigger. The fall beans are getting their first true leaves and brassica are starting to grow in them. The lower plot beans are getting nipped to 4 in stalks BUT even though are getting regrowth starting...this is why I love cow peas no matter how short they mentioned they will try to put on new growth and most do. The farmer planted his corn very late so it is just now starting to developers ears. This means he'll be chopping it very late. That should make things interesting g during their. I drove by his earlier planted corn a couple of miles away.and it's filled with fat ears and the silk is Brown. That will get chopped way sooner than ours and the deer will shift movement our way, following the food and cover.
When I was telling hubby this he said ya, I watched a bunch over by the old goat barn milling around when I left for work. One was an absolutely huge doe.

 

Well, got the mower belt replaced to try and finish my bigger plot... And today was pretty rough too. I got the area I really wanted to mow done, around my trees and up to my redneck blind. Then the belt started smoking again, just have to get on this earlier and better next year. Oh well, got what I needed done. Then started to spray, and my sprayer wouldn't maintain pressure. Just been one thing after another. Thankfully I did get this area sprayed once last week, I would have liked to burn it down harder, but should be better than nothing. Did some reseeding of my clover for the fall and then got my turnips and radish in. Started raining about 2 hours after I got out, it won't be perfect but it should be a killing field. Just wish for once things would all work like they are supposed to.

The bottom plot looks great after the mow and spray down, stuff just starting to come up and the rain today should be awesome for it. Checked my blinds, everything should be ready to go for season.

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