Effective signs?

[Corley5]

That's why buckwheat and rye should be used as cover crops as both have allelopathic properties. I've used buckwheat many times to suppress quackgrass and it works but it takes a couple seasons.  I've also found that a seed rate of 100lbs per acre broadcast works best.  Any less and the buckwheat canopy isn't thick enough.  We used to do this in the Pigeon River SF to get a handle on quack before we planted legumes.  If glyphosate is added to the rotation it'd work even better.  It'll all comes back to managing the existing residue to get the process started    http://www.mda.state.mn.us/ESAP/greenbook2001/2001gb07.pdf 

[Reddog]

HD flail mowers work good on Canary grass. They will chew up the dead grass.

[rebocardo]

> Any suggestions on removal?

A Dr. Field walk behind mower would work, I wouldn't use the other hand mowers that use the big circle disc with spindes as you need to chop it pretty fine.

Myself, I let my neighbors hay it for free.

[SwampDonkey]

We always used a 'disc' on harvested potato fields to chop up the vines and loosen up the soil where all the heavy equipment traveled during the harvest.  We had some sweet glover one time that we grew for rotation and it couldn't be plowed before it was bush hogged. It would bung up the plow in short order.

[OneWithWood]

Jeff, do you reckon we could build a large enough potato cannon at the inaugural UP piggy roastin to reach Kevin's property? 
Not that I would want to start any kind of international incydent or anything  eh eh

[sawguy21]

You would get nailed for illegally exporting spuds. ;)

[Jeff]

Kevin should be in attendance, so my question would be, can we build a canon big enough to get him home. ;D

[pappy]

  I tinks weeds guts nuf injuryneers round ta make dats happen  ;D
foist we needs a big pipe (bridge piling) and lotsa hair spray  eh eh

[Jeff]

Maybe if he puts on enough cologne, we can just load him head first. We can save on propellant and he might just land feet first!

[isawlogs]

 Once you decide what you do witht the canary grass ... think about putting in the buckwheat .. thats about as good as it gets if you want deer around your food plot ... really amazing how they will go for that wheat ...  ;)

[Greenedive]

I find it ironic that down here we fence to keep the deer out...and up there you are trying to lure them in..... : :D

[theorm]

Jeff, do you reckon we could build a large enough potato cannon at the inaugural UP piggy roastin to reach Kevin's property? 
Not that I would want to start any kind of international incydent or anything  eh eh

I can supply a black powder cannon with a 3" bore. I know you fellas grow big spuds up there, but we can pare em down some. I'll even supply the powder.

The problem is that I have tried it already. Mashed potatoes are not very aerodynamic. Maybe we need more beergineering.

Theo

[Kevin]

I should warn you , everything flows downstream from here.  ;D

[isawlogs]

 Welll  Not really , let's saye one sows some oats and wants to get any out of it by time fall comes around, I will put some buck wheat down in strips with the oak . Deer will graze the buckwheat and keep it mowed down and leave the oats be . Makes two of us happy . They get something they really like and I get to have my oats .. Its a lot cheaper then putting up an xpensive fence ...  Sure they will eat some of the oats... but not all of it .  By the time fall comes around I get my oats , plus , one of the buckwheat mowers .   ;D
   Now if one was to want to really hunt for bares and deer ...  this settup could work really well , cause bears and oats go real good together , I have yet to see a field of oats that a bear has not found, if any bears are around to find said field . I would think it is like a field of corn and raccons ....  ;)

[chet]

I think your onta something der, Marcel  ;)  Oats might just be da ticket fur Jeff, 'cause he ain't got no bears around ta bother it.  ;D

[isawlogs]

  We who talk alike ... think alike  ;D  ;)

[Jeff]

There are bears around again.  Last week when we were at the cabin there was Bear sign all over.  They heard hunting season was over, Jeff no longer had a permit, and it was safe to come home.

[SwampDonkey]

Them big old bucks like to visit the oat fields at night when most farmers and hunters are supposed to be asleep. ;D

[isawlogs]

 

  Ya , Swamp they do, dey walk through da oats on there way ta da buckwheat .  ;)

[Burlkraft]

I think your onta something der, Marcel  ;)  Oats might just be da ticket fur Jeff, 'cause he ain't got no bears around ta bother it.  ;D

SEE.................. ???  ???  ???  It ain't just me...... ;D  ;D  ;D

[isawlogs]

There are bears around again.  Last week when we were at the cabin there was Bear sign all over

   Jeff ...  Last week , was it not April 1St  And what where those signs again ...  A black bear on a yellow square, put up on a post, just off the road some. Sumting like dis  ??? .  ;D

  If those are da bear signs ya saw .. well I'll agry wit ya , those are bear signs . 
   

[Jeff]

I'm going back up tomorrow just for the day, maybe I can find you some of those bear signs and mail em to ya to see what you think.

[Burlkraft]

I'm going back up tomorrow just for the day, maybe I can find you some of those bear signs and mail em to ya to see what you think.

Prolly not........ :D ;D :D ;D :D ;D :D ;D

[isawlogs]

 :P :P :P :P : ;D

[SwampDonkey]

I haven't seen any tracks yet in the snow. They might come out of 'er if she turns real wet. But, 3 or 4 inches of the white stuff coming Thursday.