Here in the Panhandle we've had more than our share of rain this summer. It has been so wet in our woods that I was unable to mow the Durana clover in order to keep the grass and weeds at bay with out making ruts in the patch. Earlier in the year I was able to keep the semi-circle patch pretty clean so it would be ready to plant when the time was right. All that went out the window back in August as we had standing water in the long narrow patch.
The last couple of weeks we were able to disk this patch again and finally got it to the point of being able to put some seed in the ground yesterday.
Hope to be able to keep a running report on this little patch and the adjacent Durana clover patch as the season progresses.
We gotten some deer on camera that are promising, as everyone knows, there is now way to guarantee they will stay on our 80 acres.
Treefarmer
Here are a few of our visitors that come by the feeder which is south of the Durana clover which is south of the freshly planted Rye which is south of the shooting house.
Notice all are on different days.
Treefarmer
Looking good
Oh boy treefarmer them grandboys should have a blast this year.
As everybody in Florida probably knows, Hurricane Michael is coming ashore some time tomorrow. We are about 40 miles inland from the Gulf so we will get a lot of this storm. I was a little concerned that the Rye planted last Friday afternoon might rot before it germinated. Were we ever surprised this afternoon! We rode down to the woods and it looks like every seed had germinated. Usually it takes at least a week for cereal grains to sprout but we have had such hot weather germination was perfect. (Usually the soil temperature is a bit lower this time of the year.) Now we hope it doesn't drown.
There are hundreds of acres of plowed up peanuts that don't need this storm as well as lots of cotton. I really feel for these boys as this weather will be devastating. We love boiled peanuts and usually put a bunch in the freezer each year. We buy a 30# bag and boil them in salt water, maybe 7 or 8 pounds at a time. I got to thinking that the salt water might not be too good for the septic tank so I decided take the salt water to the woods and pour it over an old mineral site that we started earlier, can't hurt anything and it might help a bit. The site is where 2 trails intersect in the deep woods. We moved the grandsons' shooting house near this spot early in the summer. There is a lot of traffic at this spot.
Here's one of our visitors that needs to move on to the "happy hunting ground":
Maybe we'll have power back in few days after Michael comes by and we can continue fluffing up last years food plot.
Treefarmer
