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Post by posiedon on Feb 12, 2012 13:22:48 GMT -5
We are going to be screening two sides of our rectangle 2 acre plot. Our idea is to provide cover on one side from the neighboring property/field. And to allow us cover on the way to stand on the other side. Right now we are just thinking planting corn at angles or staggered rows. Anybody have other ideas? I have heard of people using egyptian wheat and some sorgurms but haven't heard from any in our area.
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Post by sleepergsx on Feb 12, 2012 14:37:49 GMT -5
i use plot screens. I use them to create funnels into food plots that deer seem to enter from every direction. i plant a border around the plot and leave a gap where i want them to enter with a strip going right past my stand. that way i also have something i can hide behind when walking to and from my stand when cover is limited. currently i use plot screen from frigid forage and i also use strips of standing corn about three rows thick, but i suppose you could use any grass type forage that grows fast and tall.
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Post by steiny on Feb 12, 2012 18:37:10 GMT -5
Egyptian wheat is a great screen, but only good for a season, plus snow and ice can beat it down. Same with corn, only good for a short while. I'd suggest a double or triple row of white pine, plus one of those other options till the pines get going. It will take 8-10 years to get a good screen out of the pines.
Shrubs like autumn olive or multi flora rose make a great screen too, but these plants can really take over once they get established.
I've got a triple row of white pine all around my place to screen view from neighboring properties, eliminate shooting across the fence lines, etc. It's 15+ years old and those trees are 25' tall of better now.
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Post by goosepondmonster on Feb 12, 2012 18:40:24 GMT -5
Any trees that can be hinge cut?
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Post by posiedon on Feb 12, 2012 19:03:13 GMT -5
no hinge cutting, what happened is the property use to be one all section. The big bottom field made an L. The new property line makes the bottom field and I and the leg that created the L is now ours. The property split wasn't a good one so now our side no tractors can get to to farm it as it is surrounded by woodlands. So we are food plotting it. Good for us hunters but bad for my grandparents who will not recieve any income from the acreage. Pines are in the future of this chunk however for the first couple years we have assets going elsewhere. Thanks for the opinions.
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Post by throbak on Feb 12, 2012 19:38:23 GMT -5
PLEASE NO mutiflora or Autume Olive, look at ALAMO switchgrass
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Post by hornharvester on Feb 13, 2012 9:39:08 GMT -5
You could plant sorghum. There are two kinds, wildlife which is short and I think the other is fodder or maybe its call cane sorghum which grows real tall 7-8 ft. I planted it by mistake one year and its was thick and tall! I think it came from my local feed mill. I planted this about the first of June. Oh, and it will be an annual. h.h.
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Post by daneowner on Feb 13, 2012 10:57:12 GMT -5
I ordered some groundhog radishes out of Iowa last year, they sent me a 2012 seed guide a couple weeks ago. they listed a Pearl millet that can grow to 7-10ft tall. (suppose to be similar to sorghum-sudan). $42 for 50lbs. Has anyone heard of or tried this? They also listed a sorghum hybrid that will grow 7-9ft tall but had "ASK" on the price list.
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Post by hornharvester on Feb 13, 2012 14:46:31 GMT -5
I would check with my local feed mill and see what kind of price they have. Its called millet and sweet sorghum. h.h.
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Post by daneowner on Feb 13, 2012 17:50:28 GMT -5
H.H., Thanks, I will check with local feed mill first but was trying to find if anyone local had sowed the pearl millet. Maybe my local mill can give some info on it. Thanks again.
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Post by hornharvester on Feb 13, 2012 19:14:19 GMT -5
Ive planted a lot of the short growth or wildlife sorghum that I got from the local county soil ag. On the sack it said not to plant until Jun 10 and use plenty of fertilizer. Ive drilled it and broadcast and both did very good. h.h.
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Post by steiny on Feb 13, 2012 21:44:16 GMT -5
I wouldn't be too quick to rule out the pines. You can buy them for abou $0.50 apiece for 12" seedlings. Sooner you get them in the ground, the sooner you will have that permanent screen.
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Post by throbak on Feb 14, 2012 9:23:07 GMT -5
Pines=deer candy without a fence
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Post by daneowner on Feb 14, 2012 9:48:47 GMT -5
throbak, I have to agree on the "fence" I set out approx. 50 of the small seedlings one year and didn't fence them, big mistake, deer (at least I blamed them LOL) bite the top out of most of them.
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Post by sleepergsx on Feb 14, 2012 17:24:41 GMT -5
throbak, I have to agree on the "fence" I set out approx. 50 of the small seedlings one year and didn't fence them, big mistake, deer (at least I blamed them LOL) bite the top out of most of them. i lost quite a few to mice last winter as well...they stripped the bark above the snow line...it looked weird when the snow melted...all the trees had bark 6 inches up from the ground, but nothing after that |
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Post by parkerbow on Feb 18, 2012 22:45:13 GMT -5
I have planted pines a few times and like someone else said the deer munch the tops of them off then the ones that did grow the bucks used them as their personal rub line and tore the crap out of them. So I did not have much luck with them. Actually everything that I try to plant for "future" wildlife benefits seem to not work out. I planted apple trees and pear trees 2 different times and they always die. I also planted over 100 fast growing evergreen trees one year and not a one made it. I give up !!!!!!!!
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Post by esshup on Feb 19, 2012 11:51:46 GMT -5
Cave in Rock switchgrass does well in the Midwest.
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Post by throbak on Feb 19, 2012 15:55:43 GMT -5
Cave In Rock= armpit high, Alamo=up to 10 ft I have them both side by side Alamo the clear choice, any one down this way that can do pics you would be more than welcom to foto and post
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Post by esshup on Feb 20, 2012 21:17:17 GMT -5
throbak, where to source the Alamo?
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Post by throbak on Feb 21, 2012 8:17:38 GMT -5
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