The perfact summer....

[growalot]

This has been ,to date, the perfact summer...I woke to 51 degrees and had another wonderful nights sleep. Here we have had 70's, low 80's and rain every week with sunny days most of the time....After this past brutal winter Ma nature has given us a nod...at least for now.

Hope you all are enjoying it as much as I am.

Thoughts on what fall /winter 2014 might bring in veiw of this?

[fasteddie]

How are the food plots coming along ?

[Merlot]

I'm hoping for another bumper crop of apples at camp.

[landtracdeerhunter]

Temp wise , yes. Wet here. Water laying in the furrows of the hay fields. Just like last year. Only had 2 set of 3 days dry so far to make dry hay. Uneven fields of corn, acreage of drown out. Soybeans are yellowing. My pumpkins will be disc up and planting to radish, if I could get in the fields. Crop insurance will surly be used in this area.

[Meat Manager]

I'm hoping for another bumper crop of apples at camp.

If they are wild/grown-over trees then I wouldn't count on it...from my experience they rarely produce heavily two seasons in a row, more often than not they produce every other year or even less frequently.

Obviously if you are cultivating these apple trees producing apples every year is the idea.

Personally I felt the glut of apples and other mast and oceans of late standing corn hurt my deer sightings last season...I'm sure it also helped the herd survive a tough winter.

Either way I wish you luck with the rapidly approaching season.

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[Meat Manager]

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[First-light]

Plenty of apples by me. 8P

[Meat Manager]

As long as we don't finish up too dry or too wet it has been a perfect Turkey poulting season/spring plot/fall plot Summer here in 7j!

We also have a bunch of apples on trees that did not produce last year.

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[greg54]

Summer is moving at a pretty good pace...I hope that the days don't get to hot

[ants]

Been great around me too. Only a few real hot days, the right amount of rain and mostly sunny days. 

[Five Seasons]

glad to have you back grow!

[growalot]

Sorry to hear LTDH...being on a hill does have some perks.

Eddie other than weeds and birds, plots are doing well...Clover is fantastic...I gave up on Milorganite because of rain..but hey I planted them to be eaten...so eat they have...Now strange.... lower plot they have nipped to ground ,but they are still putting on growth...top plot they have taken out sections and left others...now just nipping tops.. I beleive it is due to plot shape...the lower beans are in a big rectangle though in wide open...the upper plot is planted in an odd shape...open between 2 wood lots then continues very narrow and long next to garden fence. It then hangs a rt. and goes up and completely around the goat barn. Plants around goat barn are the tallest...they may get beans...building stand near it...now that we have rifle coming in.....  its a good area to take a deer.....all is lined by apple trees...which are producing.....I killed off part of SFand maybe the corn we will see...the woods filled in tight on one section ...clover in trail plot there tiny and short..... the succraseed HSG has kept it green and in good traffic.

TY Belo

[growalot]

LOL...so I was interrupted twice while writing that...talking about soybeans growing and milorganite on them them...

 

"woods filling in"...meant the canopy....very thick this year..lots of rain ...few worms 

[Lawdwaz]

Today was a wonderful day, weather wise.  We have had some warm and very humid days that are tough on folks doing hard work and have/had busted a/c in their vans.  HINT.

 

 

It is fixed and I am happy.

 

 

[Doc]

...few worms 

Actually, we had no worms (caterpillars). I don't know whether they are in a low part of their cycle or whether the weather goy them or what, but I am very pleased about that. Japanese beetles are still pretty numerous ..... damned things!

[growalot]

hhhmmm just caught that...just too busy...correct spelling of Perfect...lol...new PC doesn't have spell check working...or this site doesn't...one gets too use to the little red lines to correct you...lol...Off to buy fertilizer for garden....have a good day...