Chestnuts r very fickle, you will loose some.
Once you find the correct soil location they will grow fast.
Maybe take half your trees and put on 2 different locations.
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Clay comes in different forms of let's say how tight a clay it is .
Every farmer that has clay says he has the hardest clay around.
If you have other trees growing that a good sign, it's just that the chestnuts will do better and grow faster in a loamy soil.
Putting other soil with it probably...
30' apart
They do not like heavy clay.
Try for some loamy well drained soil, I have had very good luck on forest like soil.
Protecting them is a must.
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Sometimes just can't win, try not to get discouraged.
Be very careful not to change or make a drastic move just because of a situation. Keep on it what you r doing.
1 example , I hear farmers say because of a early frost this year I will never plant that long of a day corn ever again.
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Your title "single most important ingredient in a food plot"
Conserving moisture has to b number 1 since you went into your dry year description.
Many things that u can do that help.
This is the farmer in me.
FOCUS And work really hard on the things that you have control over.
Don't let the...
As the farmer in me always trying to be very efficient.
After wheat harvest I will leave standing wheat for the deer.
Bout this time of year they have most of it gone so I go and spread turnips in it just before a rain.
Spot on with starvation comment, all your comments actually.
I farm for a living and believe the day is coming when America will open up the refrigerator door and it will be EMPTY.
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Ok I am the buddy that bkcrrtnps was talking about when peeing just at the base of the blind we were in. We video taped the buck at the base of the blind in the excate spot he just peed in.
That evening I shot a 6 1/2 year old.
This is so unbelievable stuff but it happened.
I was with him...
We put up a system last year.
We r tied into the grid so if we over produce what we use it goes back into the grid. We still use the same meter as before but added 1 to keep track of what we produce.
We did not go with batteries they would have been as much as we paid for the solar system.
In...
This farm is on rented ground, looks like I need to start walking it for sheds. Found 1 last year 1 row over would have been same results.
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