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The home brew doesn't work as well as Gly, plus a generic gly in concentrate form is actually cheaper than the home brew.

Some pheasant guys here in PA do an artificial-type stratification before drilling the seed. They soak the bags of seed in a cold-water stream for 24 hours, let the seed drain, and then store in a fridge/cold storage for 6 weeks before planting. This gets nearly all of the seed through...

HorseDoctor - does your experience include switchgrass? If I correctly recall Paul's info on grass plantings, the switch is what needs the stratification for higher germination rates.

Good advice given so far. Definitely don't worry about running over the growing beans to spray, they will bounce back. One additional thing - put up an exclusion cage, so you can see how well the beans actually did. Deer can put a hurting on a small plot of beans. Check out this photo...

2016 Planting Plan What is everyone planning for 2016? This is my list: Planting some mast and browse items for the deer... 25 Elderberry 25 Dwarf Chinkapin Oak 25 Silky Dogwood 25 Hazelnut 6 ACN apple 6 ACN pear For the ducks... 5 Dwarf Chinkapin Oak 25 Buttonbush...

Excellent advice from Daver. Paul benefited so many food plotters, and his influence will be felt for many, many years to come.

I second what others have said earlier on two accounts: 1 Clover is a great spring crop that will fix nitrogen for your brassicas next fall and provide good forage for your herd this spring and summer 2 Dbltree's Corner has more information than you will likely ever need....Paul was crazy...

Fluffy - a NWSG seed, such as Indiangrass, little Bluestem, big Bluestem, etc. The seeds are light and fluffy, not a small hard seed like switchgrass.

We were truly blessed to have Paul here on Earth as long as we did. Monday 11/30 was our rifle opener here in PA...I didn't realize that 11/30 was the date Paul had passed last year, but as luck would have it, I was sitting in a stand next to the two Northern Red Oaks I planted on top of our...

That's good news. Good luck this March!

Daver - thanks for the informative post! I'm in Southcentral PA...we have planted brassica as late as Labor Day and still gotten a fairly decent crop, but I think we can go a little longer before we get a frost. We put down some brassica seed on a very small plot on 9/4 this year, and it's...

LHA - sounds like a good plan. I hate losing any "good" tree.... so I do whatever I can to protect them! My buddy thinks I belong in the insane asylum....oh well.

LHA - how do you plant to keep the roots from freezing too hard this winter? In the past, I have "heeled" some potted trees in the garden so they had the surrounding ground to insulate them (and simulate actually being in the ground). Other people use wood chips or mulch to insulate the root...

A nice combination....Good luck with the planting.

Looks good goatman...what all did you get? Fall is a great time to plant trees.

I was definitely laughing out loud at my computer when I read the beginning of this post....quality entertainment right there. In the end, your tiller did a great job on that jungle of weeds! As said by others, it would probably have been better to mow the weeds down first...to give the...

Foxtail kills pretty easy. Is this a spot spray activity or are you spraying the entire plot? I would recommend 1oz/gal for gly on the foxtail and spot spray it so you stunt as little clover as possible.

If you are able to keep the seed cool and dry, I'm fairly certain germination will still be very good 2-3 years later. We got some free RR corn seed from PF...I think it was 4-5 years ago....Dad planted a bunch in his garden this year, and it looks as good as the farmer's field corn. We...

LHA - awesome, thanks very much for the information! I will try to do some fall prep this year so I'm not fighting through weeds and other stuff to plant trees in the Spring of 2016. Appreciate the help.

LHA - what is your Oust and Gly process in the fall? And when in the fall do you do it? I always seem to struggle with "per acre" spray amounts when all I would need to do is hit a few (or a lot) of "spots" for tree planting the next spring.