Another great video Sam. Very timely. Trees will be in early this year.
@PFHabitat5 ай бұрын
Yah same here. I love tree planting season!
@bucksutherland78075 ай бұрын
I'm in MN. Try planting some meyers spruce. Probably gonna grow a hair faster than black hills spruce. They are awesome. Highly deer resistant if they can get a few years on them. Needles are SHARP. I'm done with norway and white spruce. Only meyers and maybe a few black hills from now on. I plant plenty of pine and cedar, but they go in cages.
@PFHabitat5 ай бұрын
Black Hills are definitely great. I've never planted meyers but will have to look into them. Thanks for sharing!
@bucksutherland78075 ай бұрын
@@PFHabitat Check out your local NRCS sales. I get mine from Meeker county. If your county is not carrying them ask them to order some. They are extremely drought tolerant, cold hardy and disease resistant. My deer in Cass county didnt touch them again this year, but they ate all my balsam fir trees like Andes dinner mints.
@PFHabitat4 ай бұрын
I'll give it a look, thanks brother!
@kirbymoody69853 ай бұрын
Niceee!! This content needs S M Zeus!
@PFHabitat3 ай бұрын
Thanks Kirby
@jeffbergsbaken96375 ай бұрын
You are a busy fella with all those habitat projects! Good info as always! I have a fair amount of cool season brome here ; I’ve been doing controlled burns every 2-3 years and noticing a fair amount of native grasses and flowers coming back and the cool season grasses getting knocked back. Our local biologist suggested doing the burns later in spring when the warm season grasses have a better chance to outcompete the cool season grasses. I’ve had better luck with red cedar for thermal cover as it grows faster here and adapts to our clay soils here in eastern South Dakota. Spruce do reasonably well too, but just a slower growth tree here. Have a great spring.
@PFHabitat5 ай бұрын
That sounds like a great plan of attack! Yah I generally end up burning ours late May so it works well for those warm season plants. Cedar are definitely a good option as well for thermal cover!
@dougreese91225 ай бұрын
Great information. Appreciate the tips on planting trees.
@PFHabitat5 ай бұрын
Thanks for watching!
@davemitchell7315 ай бұрын
Great information! Thanks for the info on switchgrass!
@PFHabitat5 ай бұрын
Thanks for watching!
@northwoodswhitetailsfoodpl26635 ай бұрын
Great Video, good information
@PFHabitat5 ай бұрын
I appreciate that John!
@benjaminevenson83615 ай бұрын
Nicely done! Im in your area, how did you decide RC big rock over RC chippewa?
@PFHabitat5 ай бұрын
I'm hearing reports of it doing well in our area but haven't tried it yet so it's a bit of a trial run. I do love what I've seen from the RC Tecumseh.
@cadenrobley19245 ай бұрын
What’s your rate for the clethodim per acre also how much crop oil do you add? Starting to be my favorite channel hood work👍
@PFHabitat5 ай бұрын
I appreciate that! I go with a fairly hot rate at 32/oz per acre mixed with 32/oz of crop oil. The standard rate is 16 but I just didn't feel it gave me the burn down I was looking for on these very well established grasses. If you're spraying over planted trees or food plots stick to the label rate. I only do that hot rate on fallow ground that is a sea of cool season grass.
@ronmorris23015 ай бұрын
Rabbit running at beginning of video
@PFHabitat5 ай бұрын
Yah he chased me around a bit that day
@saltytech83805 ай бұрын
Good stuff Sam. I'll show you some browsed spruce trees when you come to SE MN in early June. Looking forward to your visit!
@PFHabitat5 ай бұрын
I'm looking forward to it as well!
@stevedenoyer59564 ай бұрын
They don’t browse my spruce but they get rubbed and killed when they get to about 6’ tall. Need to figure out how to prevent this. To costly to cage all the spruce. Maybe just volume? Idk.
@PFHabitat4 ай бұрын
Shoot....yah volume is probably the best approach. We plant 1000s so I don't notice the handful that get rubbed
@alexaalsma42705 ай бұрын
Great watch, are you planting dnr size trees? If so how do your conifers do in that grass? Thanks
@PFHabitat5 ай бұрын
Yah I ordered through the DNR and get the smallest saplings. They do fine but I've been making a point of killing the grass after planting the past few years and it really helps survival rate
@Jay-hu1pc5 ай бұрын
@@PFHabitat are you killing the grass after the trees are growing or when they are dormant ? Is there a herbicide that is safe to use around the trees?
@PFHabitat5 ай бұрын
@@Jay-hu1pc I come right over top of the trees with the herbicide clethodim mixed with crop oil. It'll just kill the grass and not hurt the trees
@freetired5 ай бұрын
What are the deciduous trees you've planted and how long ago?
@PFHabitat5 ай бұрын
Oaks, red osier dogwood, plum, hybrid poplar and willow, streamco willow. They've been planted periodically over the past 20 years
@freetired5 ай бұрын
Sorry, jumped the gun. Didn't watch whole video before asking
@PFHabitat5 ай бұрын
No worries!
@unodostres90145 ай бұрын
1:15 did you not see the rabbit 😂
@PFHabitat5 ай бұрын
Haha good catch. I had zoomed in but the video was getting long so I cut that part out
@unodostres90145 ай бұрын
@@PFHabitat great video and getting a Dibble bar
@PFHabitat5 ай бұрын
Thanks and you'll love it. It's a great tool to have in the habitat arsenal
@coldsteel16485 ай бұрын
Have you tried red pine?
@PFHabitat5 ай бұрын
Yah I have some planted. They are deer resistant. They just don't keep their lower branches as long as whites do
@bradbrockhaus6335 ай бұрын
How many acres you have up there?
@PFHabitat5 ай бұрын
The family farm is 270
@bradbrockhaus6335 ай бұрын
Wow...real nice!!
@PFHabitat5 ай бұрын
Yah it's a nice piece to have. Pretty open for the most part but I'm doing my part to build up the cover