joeaveragehunter Posted December 21, 2009 Report Share Posted December 21, 2009 I am finalizing my order for bare root apple trees and honeysuckle cuttings for next spring. I try to do a little something every year in addition to the food plots. I think I am going for ten 6' bare root apple trees and 100 honeysuckles. Should be about $200 (not including the fencing and stakes). Are there things that you guys do every year to try to improve your hunting land? TSI? Trail cutting? Plantings? Burning? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wtnhunt Posted December 21, 2009 Report Share Posted December 21, 2009 Try, but things don't always allow me to do what I plan. Hoping this year to plant about a dozen trees, mostly pears along the edge of a plot. Also planning to plant corn for deer this year, something we have not done in the past, cannot decide whether to go with roundup ready or a sweet corn variety. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
camoman1 Posted December 22, 2009 Report Share Posted December 22, 2009 The owner of the property I hunt is ALWAYS cutting trees trees on the hardwood ridge. It looks like a bomb went off in there. Its a mess and kind of a pain sometimes, but in the long run it will be good. The wide open woods do the deer no good and the tops will help feed them in the winter....Other than that, and food plots, we dont do much. We have a few small apple trees, but they wont be producing many apples for a while. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strut10 Posted December 22, 2009 Report Share Posted December 22, 2009 I try to make a mess somewhere every year if I have time. I'll pick a strategic hillside area and drop every tree that is not a mast producer or of timber value. Drop them every which way to try to create an impenetrable area of treetops for the briars to grow up in. Deer will flock to these areas. They don't even have to be that large. Even 30 yards to a side will draw the deer in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doubledrop Posted December 23, 2009 Report Share Posted December 23, 2009 we dont do much here as well, however we do have an apple orchard and a few pear trees as well as 150 mixed with green briars and oaks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Texan_Til_I_Die Posted December 23, 2009 Report Share Posted December 23, 2009 Holistic cattle grazing. Basically all of the livestock gets rotated into a single pasture and left there until it's pretty well eaten down. This forces the cows to eat everything, not just the most palatable plants. Then they're rotated to the next pasture. Depending on rainfall, it may be as much as 18 months before they're turned back in to a pasture. There are 4 main pastures all between 1500 and 2000 acres. Oh, and I shoot as many predators and hogs as I can. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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