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Mow it when I can. Need to change 2 tires on the tractor, 1 on the 10' orchard mower. It's sittiing out back where it rolled a steer tire off the rim. The long bad drive tire on the other side has popped while it sat up. New drive tire is in the barn, new steer tires are in the bed of 1 of my trucks.
The young family with a my lifetime lease (cost them an 1896 penny) take care of low limb removal.
 
SeaBee133 said:
Mow it when I can. Need to change 2 tires on the tractor, 1 on the 10' orchard mower. It's sittiing out back where it rolled a steer tire off the rim. The long bad drive tire on the other side has popped while it sat up. New drive tire is in the barn, new steer tires are in the bed of 1 of my trucks.
The young family with a my lifetime lease (cost them an 1896 penny) take care of low limb removal.
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Thanks...I've found when I mow often the diverse plant community turns more into grasses or broomsedge....considering mowing a portion then disking a portion to open seed bank...maybe disk some strips and add more forbs for more diversity.
Good luck with your mechanic work...its always something that needs working on.
 
This place has a 1792 NC land grant, less than 20 miles from the MS River. I know it has had cotton, tobacco, corn, pecans and cattle grown on it. Literally 1/4 million trifoliate orange bushes, couple hundred Osage Orange trees. Small game love them. No telling what all was introduced just since the current house was built in 1840.
How do I know the trifoliate orange count? Grid square by grid square, 36"x36" at a time, for over 2 years. Wife wonders why our little toy farm (30 acres) in a "no pigs here" (TWRA) county has pigs every couple years.
 
The most e-vile plant in TN, the trifoliate orrange. Thanks for another impossible to kill oriental invasive US government. Too sour for human consumption, with toxic sap in its thin barked razor sharp thorns.
 

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SeaBee133 said:
Been there, tried that. Replaced it with clover and lespadeza, broadcast seeder and left to fight for survival. The lespedeza has choked out my orchard grass, but seems to leave pasture bermuda alone.
The remaining front pecan grove is heavily clovered, to the point I can stand on the front porch and get deer, rabbits, groundhogs with a handgun. Seed was a mix of red, white, Dutch and Japanese, roughly 200 pounds of seed on 14 acres.
Back orchards have been left unmowed. Vetch, blackberries, ironweed, lots of other native forbs. Pasture bermuda, bunch grasses, perennial rye, wild oats, wild squashes, sand plums, chokecherries, ground cherries…
I've never seen more deer on the cams, unfortunately they have already gone nocturnal.
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Why lespadeza? Very invasive, once established long in the seed bank.
 

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