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Work begins now!!
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01/31/15 01:43 AM
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Greekangler
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Going to harvest smartweed seen from ponds on property- tilling and spraying doesn't start until March for me this year - control invasives and woody plants not beneficial to waterfowl What are your off season projects
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Re: Work begins now!!
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01/31/15 03:35 AM
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Esh and Hattie
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Carving a dozen teal, 6 gadwall, and 6 mallard dekes. Probably a couple pintail drakes also for some color
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01/31/15 08:03 PM
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Carving a dozen teal, 6 gadwall, and 6 mallard dekes. Probably a couple pintail drakes also for some color That! Or something like it. I would like to have some sprigs in my coastal spread next year. I would also like to add a half dozen or so spoonies.
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Re: Work begins now!!
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01/31/15 11:16 PM
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What are your off season projects Kissin my honeys hiney so I can hunt next season as much as seasons past. She's got a honey-do list a mile long....
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Re: Work begins now!!
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01/31/15 11:59 PM
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I got the 4 wheeler cleaned up this week while it was warm and dropped it off for service today. Fixing odds and ends on my truck and trailer to get them back in shape.
Next is the garage!
Looking for a 4 wheeler disc also.
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Re: Work begins now!!
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02/01/15 12:03 AM
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shea.mcphail
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Water is low in all of our ponds. Is this the time to start planting vegetation for next season? If so, what would you recommend?
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02/01/15 12:10 AM
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Water is low in all of our ponds. Is this the time to start planting vegetation for next season? If so, what would you recommend? Not until the summer. Plant a mix of Japanese and browntop millet. This combination ensures that you will have something come up and do well as the Japanese millet will do well in wet years and browntop will do well in drier years when the ponds stay low. Millet is very low maintenance compared to other duck foods like corn.
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Re: Work begins now!!
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02/01/15 01:51 PM
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What are your off season projects Kissin my honeys hiney so I can hunt next season as much as seasons past. She's got a honey-do list a mile long.... This^^^^^
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Re: Work begins now!!
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02/01/15 02:25 PM
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I'm fighting beavers right now. They got my drains stopped up on two holes.
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Re: Work begins now!!
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02/01/15 03:33 PM
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Water is low in all of our ponds. Is this the time to start planting vegetation for next season? If so, what would you recommend? Not until the summer. Plant a mix of Japanese and browntop millet. This combination ensures that you will have something come up and do well as the Japanese millet will do well in wet years and browntop will do well in drier years when the ponds stay low. Millet is very low maintenance compared to other duck foods like corn. May even do a september planting to maximize surface area. What's latest you guys have planted in N texas? Just have to be careful and not hunt dove if any seed present
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Re: Work begins now!!
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02/01/15 04:24 PM
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shea.mcphail
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I'm not sure what we have planted right now. My father grows coastal Bermuda grass for hay. We haven't planted anything by the ponds, but we tend to have algae during the summer. Dad calls it duck algae but I don't know if that is correct.
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Re: Work begins now!!
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02/02/15 02:21 AM
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Water is low in all of our ponds. Is this the time to start planting vegetation for next season? If so, what would you recommend? Not until the summer. Plant a mix of Japanese and browntop millet. This combination ensures that you will have something come up and do well as the Japanese millet will do well in wet years and browntop will do well in drier years when the ponds stay low. Millet is very low maintenance compared to other duck foods like corn. May even do a september planting to maximize surface area. What's latest you guys have planted in N texas? Just have to be careful and not hunt dove if any seed present I planted millet in late August last year. No way was it ready for teal season, but it plenty of seed by the time regular season rolled around.
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Re: Work begins now!!
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02/02/15 02:26 AM
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shea.mcphail
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So do you guys just go along the waterline and plant?
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Re: Work begins now!!
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02/03/15 02:17 AM
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So do you guys just go along the waterline and plant? If you're not able to control your water (drain and flood) then you have no choice but to plant on the edges
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02/04/15 03:01 AM
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Water is low in all of our ponds. Is this the time to start planting vegetation for next season? If so, what would you recommend? Not until the summer. Plant a mix of Japanese and browntop millet. This combination ensures that you will have something come up and do well as the Japanese millet will do well in wet years and browntop will do well in drier years when the ponds stay low. Millet is very low maintenance compared to other duck foods like corn. May even do a september planting to maximize surface area. What's latest you guys have planted in N texas? Just have to be careful and not hunt dove if any seed present I planted millet in late August last year. No way was it ready for teal season, but it plenty of seed by the time regular season rolled around. Plant in 2-3 stages. Push it out a bit. Do 1/2 in moist soil. Till water and treat invasives. Let yall know how it goes- oct 10 or so is first freeze N TX- probably pushing it, but worth the risk
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Re: Work begins now!!
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02/04/15 03:06 AM
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So do you guys just go along the waterline and plant? If you're not able to control your water (drain and flood) then you have no choice but to plant on the edges Trash pump w sprinkler heads will solve that problem
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02/05/15 06:18 PM
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muddyz
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Trash pump w sprinkler heads will solve that problem
Tell me more.
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Re: Work begins now!!
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02/10/15 02:20 AM
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Carving underway, started out with a mini shoveler for the daughter, wish real decoys you could spit out that fast Got the first half dozen teal blocked out, working on the heads now, Looking forward to letting all the layers cure the appropriate amount of time, and getting these puppies ready to hunt over! Used a half dozen carvers for the first time this year and killed birds fine, but beat them up pretty good hurrying through the sealing process. Not this time!
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02/10/15 03:19 AM
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Re: Work begins now!!
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02/10/15 03:32 AM
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Trash pump w sprinkler heads will solve that problem
Tell me more. Put the pump in the water to feed water to the sprinkler heads in order to water the plot.
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Re: Work begins now!!
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02/10/15 04:02 AM
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Going to add 2 moist soil impoundments about acre each in the next month. Probably plant dirty corn in one, moist soil millet in second
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Re: Work begins now!!
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02/10/15 04:06 AM
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So do you guys just go along the waterline and plant? You can plant jap millet starting in June all the way down as water recedes to late August. As long as u have mud- will typically grow well- even without rolling in- especially if plant before a rain.....hint
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Re: Work begins now!!
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02/10/15 04:10 AM
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shea.mcphail
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So do you guys just go along the waterline and plant? You can plant jap millet starting in June all the way down as water recedes to late August. As long as u have mud- will typically grow well- even without rolling in- especially if plant before a rain.....hint This is what I'm planning to do. Now I just have to find the seeds. Thanks for the tip!
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02/13/15 02:19 AM
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Making grass mats for the blind. This is pampas grass, wonder how long I will last
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Re: Work begins now!!
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02/13/15 02:44 AM
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I'm building a new duck blind. Would rather work in water and cold temps, instead of knee high grass and cottonmouths!
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