Recent content by tomt

Thanks Dbltree, It's like the old "catch 22". Hate to burn too early, then have the weather get cool and those darn cool season grasses get going again, yet, hate to wait too long and all of a sudden, it's just too tough to burn. Will probably do like you said, make a judgement call as time goes...

Timing of burn ????? I know as late as possible is the best time to burn for WSG's. Where I live I'm guessing early to mid-May. However, this year we must be darn near a month ahead of time. Trees and bushes are breaking bud and the darn grass is getting pretty green and starting to grow. We...

dkelly, You also may want to consider renting their drill. I did about 10 acres this past December with the NRCS drill, and I have to say it worked really nice. The nice thing is you get a real even distribution of the seed. It's easy to see where you have been. I used the drill as a drop...

dkelly, Did you call your county NRCS office? I know here where I live they have one for rent. Maybe give them a try.

Thanks, You guys are too kind. Actually, I have an order into Lincoln-Oakes for a few hundred scrubs. I'll have to add a few plugs and experiment with the PCG. I have some wet areas in the 10 acres that I dormant seeded this past December. It'll be fun to see what happens.

Thanks guys, I will definately try your spray combo Doubltree. My biggest concern would be that all that nice expensive seed would get washed away after frost seeding, but I suppose if it's going on killed sod it sort of gets "anchored in" so to speak. I also won't till, I'll just mow, kill...

Looks nice Letemgrow !!!!!!! OK guys,,,,,,,,, I'm looking for ideas. Took a walk today and noticed that my grass waterways, which are mostly canary grass and some other cool season grasses are pretty well nocked down and laying flat. As you can see in the attached picture, (The grasses to...

Too bad it is so expensive. I just thought it would be neat to plant some to add a little diversity. I still will probably try a little. You guys are fortunate to have it occuring naturally. Tom

Letemgrow, Didn't you or do you have prairie cordgrass planted? I was maybe thinking of doing a little in a year or so. I have some canary grass waterways and some flat wetter areas of canary I was thinking of playing with. Maybe add some switch to it???? Just thinking of future projects to play...

Grasses in the snow I took a walk yesterday with the camera in hand. Per Dbltree's request, some pictures to show how the grasses are standing up to the snow. This shot, the grasses aren't too bad. That's also a small milo/sunflower plot in there. This is mostly Canada Wild Rye. As I've...

Update on planting Happy to say I got my 10 acres of ground planted this last week. The ground was prepped all summer and seeded just before the snows here are starting up. It actually snowed 3" last night and another 10" is supposed to fall on Tuesday night. It will be interesting to see how a...

Thanks Guys, I Just don't want my over-anxiousness to cause me to do something dumb like planting too early and thus not get a good germination. I have a lot of time and sweat in the prep of this land and I just want to continue to do what's best. I think I will order my seed, and be ready...

Dbltree, I guess I will just let the ground be. It's not that rough. How do you feel about seeding in mid-December? Is that too early? It has pretty much been freezing here every night. I would think in 3-4 more weeks the ground will be frozen for good! Its just that right now we are...

Preping Ground ??? Dbltree, Questions for you, Preping ground for frost seeding a WSG,s mix. Planted in soybeans this year, sprayed 4 times with gly. Ground is still a little rough as this was a cool season CRP field the previous 10 years, which I worked up and planted the beans in what was...

Luv to hunt, I wish I could tell you of a great solution, sorry. I brush hogged and chain sawed. Left a lot of "pungy" sticks, but the brushog does sort of tear them up into not so sharp of projections and I never did get a flat tire yet. The bigger tree stumpage that I hit with a chain saw...