<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>Bass Pundit wrote:</div>
I think if the Vikes score 20 pts, they probably win. If the Vikes are not a turnover machine, how will the Pack put points up on the board?Offense
Are you sure?
A couple questions for you on the spray.
1. Do you spray the tree with anything in the fall? What?
2. When in the spring do you spray and with what. Are repeat sprayings necessary thru the growing season?
I haven’t had much for bugs so I haven’t sprayed for them. I do have issues with sooty blotch and scab which are controlled with fungicides. Captan and Immunox are what I use together. This is a good site with pictures of the stages when you spray. After fruiting I usually spray once a month. Stop a month or so before they are ripe. I don’t spray in the fall. If you have the time cleaning up all the leaves and old apples will do more for them than spraying now.
https://yardandgarden.extension.iastate.edu/how-to/spray-schedule-home-apple-trees
Tons of great information – keep it coming.
Onthewater, is there any reason a guy couldn’t put a couple layers of the premeable landscape fabric around them to help with that plus mulch on top?
Like everyone it seems, she likes “Honeycrisp” but I’ve also read both above and online other places that they aren’t always the easiest to grow and are some of the first to have issues. I know we want middle of the road, not too sweet, not too tart apples that are good to be just eaten or used however.
I despise the cloth because it eventually gets to filled up with tiny dirt particles and doesn’t let water through like it should, and removing it later really sucks. I’ve found with a thick layer of 4-6 inches is good for 2 years. Then I need to put more on top. I have it brought in with a dump truck and bring it around with the loader on my tractor. Much cheaper and easier than the bags
Pretty much all apples are ready right now unlike most years where some aren’t ready until October. I’d suggest taking the wife to an orchard that let’s you try the apples. There are so many varieties and some people like different characteristics than other people. If you are planting a lot you can get early, mid, and late season varieties to extend the picking for months. You also need to decide the size you want to plant for spacing. Dwarf, semi dwarf, or full size. I’ve gotten a lot of trees from Reuvers’ Nursery outside of Hager City. The size of tree you get for the price you pay there is much better than going to Menards or somewhere like that. The only problem with buying in the fall is you might not find what you are looking for. Trees get delivered in the spring so you will be looking at what’s left over. I have 30 apple trees and a mix of 25 more peach, pear, plum, and cherry trees. I put a 6 foot wide and 4 inch thick layer of mulch around them to keep the grass from growing. It robs moisture and nutrients that the tree needs. Decide if you are OK with regular chemical sprays or if you are going to try the organic route. It’s easier spraying to prevent problems than it is to fix problems.
We have an exhaust fan for the basement bathroom that exits in the basement window well. A few days ago, I saw a wasp crawl around the corner of the screened cover over the fan exit, so I rapped on it with a broom handle. A wasp flew out, I waited a little bit and climbed down the ladder into the window well and pulled the cover off. Immediately half a dozen or so wasps came swarming out and attacking me. I was windmilling my arms at them for what seemed like forever but was probably only a minute or so before all but one left and I could climb out of the window well. Got stung on my arm and my lower lip. Went to the hardware store and got some wasp spray, doused the nest and a couple of wasps that came back. Then I replaced the cover and fixed the gap in the screening. Hopefully that’s the end of the story.
When spraying the nests it should be done late afternoon as the temp drops. They come back to the nests then. The ones you didn’t kill will be back building more somewhere not far the next day
<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>Tom P. wrote:</div>
Since I do not care about a pretty picture I set my scroll speed faster so this will elongate any fish returns and make them easier to see.Wouldn’t it be the opposite- slower chart speed to elongate the image?
No. Slower chart speed makes it shorter. You are compressing more information before it goes off the screen
The new HD version has the power button on the front faceplate, so it’s the previous version.
Hello Jake,
Could you tell me what year you purchased the shuttle? I am trying do figure out if it is the updated model.
I’ve done it at minimum of 500 times in the last 10 years all fishing the river. I haven’t tied to the dock that whole time. Don’t drive the boat out of Bluetooth range and or it will keep going. If you have the link remote with touch screen leave it on the dock so you don’t accidentally bump it off spotlock. Also don’t forget to turn it on. Keep from doing those things and you will not have a problem.
Surprised they are not using crawler and leach harness.
This time of the year @ Oahe that is the norm.
I’ve never been to Oahe but not being on the Canadian boarder the water temp probably is 10 degrees warmer than LOTW. If there is a year when that tactic could start producing in May it could be this year. The ice came off the lake much earlier than usual so I’m guessing the water temp should be higher than most years. I’ve had fish dropping eggs in my boat up there over this weekend in the past.
Drowned about 100 beetles in soapy water and used a piece of paper to scrape off hundreds of eggs from the spears. Hopefully, the next wave of them won’t be as bad. I’m guessing we’ll get 4-5 hatches this year. Back is getting better. I was able to get my lettuces, beets and turnip starts in the garden and hilled up my potato beds.
The beetles will still be on it all year. When done eating it for the year get on a schedule of spraying it until fall and you shouldn’t have near the problem in the spring. Then start the spraying again next summer after you are done picking it. You won’t be worrying about eating the chemicals that way.
I’ll be there 22-28th. This time of year most people will be vertical jigging frozen shinners. I’d bet that is what almost all the charters will be doing also. Not saying that you can’t catch them trolling. In front of the gaps will produce a lot of fish. More consistent catching of big fish off the reefs this time of year but the spring winds can make it suck getting there.
Ramp and cheese omelet with ham steak and fiddleheads
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I’ve never heard of Ramps before but a quick google search says they are expensive? Did you find them?
There is a large patch at my friends place. Probably a half an acre that is almost fully covered. It’s one of the first plants that come up in spring so very easy to spot in the woods.
Replaced the garlic in the in the Alfredo sauce with ramps I collected earlier in the day. Grilled the boneless skinless chicken thighs and ramps before adding them to the sauce.
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60 yrs ago, my grandma sent us kids out to scout the road ditch by their farm for wild asparagas. We always found some , but we were told not to cut too short or it wouldn’t come back next year. And she was right. It was always in the same place as the year before. Kinda like morels I guess.
Asparagus is a perennial that can grow for 20+ years. That’s why it was always in the same place
has anyone noticed the asparagus starting to pop out of the ground???
in about a week my winter onions should be game on!!!!!!
I checked today and it has started at my place outside Ellsworth WI.
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When a fish flops off the hook and slams to floor of the boat they are perfectly fine to swim away after. I’m petty sure tossing them back in the water from a height of 3 feet isn’t going to hurt them either. Really warm water periods you might need to spend more time releasing but I’m guessing that isn’t the case for fishing the majority of the time in Canada.
Zipper fillet and leaving most the brown fat attached to the skin when you fillet will help a lot (with the flavor also). The fat is what holds most the chemicals.
I found some older threads on this but still had some questions. For the first time I will actually have a choice. Ive ran rollers forever but my buddy does have bunks and its pretty slick to get in and out of a launch. If you are fishing solo a lot would you prefer bunks or rollers? How long do you typically get out of bunks before you have to replace? I dont think shallow launches will be a huge issue for me.
If you don’t use shallow launches there is almost zero upside to you getting a roller. That’s the only reason to get one besides the rare occasion that it could be frozen to the bunk. Some boats are more prone to this. My friends aluminum will be frozen tight every time in the winter while my fiberglass has only done it once. A minute or 2 in the water usually pops it off the trailer. I can put in and pull out while fully unhooked. Using the ulterra to launch the boat from inside the truck, like I do, would be impossible with a roller
30.75″ 14.15 lbs pool 4 walleye
42.5″ lotw Northern
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I have the milwaukee 18v shop vac. It is a surprisingly powerful vacuum. If you already have the batteries I’d recommended it.
The problem with setting up a side imaging transducer for the best reading while on plane is it might not be the best position for your SI readings. You want your transducer parallel with the water line of your boat at scanning speed. Lots of boats have bows that sit higher in the water off plane than while on pad at 40 mph. That that changes the angle at the transducer. I want the best imaging so I have mine set for that with an in hull. If you go with the single and have trouble with depth at speed the down imaging usually doesn’t lose bottom as much as 2d.
You would need the in hull gt8 and a gt36 side scan transducer if you want to run both. The 36 is the same as the 56 without 2d. The 56 will not work with another transducer.
Lawn mower batteries aren’t deep cycle batteries. They aren’t made to be run down. It will work but you will be replacing it yearly if drawn down repeatedly.
You need to set all batteries individually. Read the instructions on how to do that. Set the agm to the agm setting and the other 2 on lithium. While you can charge a lithium on the agm setting, you don’t want to charge the agm on the lithium or flooded settings.
The helix 7 has a smaller transducer than the larger units. It will never show the same detail as the larger units on any frequency. With that and the small screen size I always recommend buying a used 9 inch or bigger over the 7. I used to run 999 and 1099. Learn to use one of those and you would be way ahead of the 7.
I heard they were ice fishing the channel in red wing the other day. I would say there is no way it’s open this weekend. Also heard they won’t be dumping any water from the plant until this weekend now from the first reactor
Is it a porchetta-spiced/style pork roast I’m guessing? Porchetta is a pork loin with some of the belly attached, seasoned/stuffed, rolled up, and tied. Can be skin-on or off. Rotisserie over coals is the way I’d do it but I’ve never made it. It looks awesome. I’d definitely get a skin on one.
He is talking about a porketta roast. Also known as iron range porketta. It is made with the butt not the belly and just seasoned on the outside not rolled up. Quite a few grocery stores and meat markets around here sell their own version. It’s really good if you like fennel
I’ve been using concrete reinforcing mesh for years. Once it rusts a bit, you can hardly see it around the trees. my trees are all protected by a hoop of the mesh reaching out an average of 5 ft from the trunk of the tree. A single stake is all that’s needed to anchor it. And I can easily move it for mowing/pruning/picking.
The 5 foot tall concrete mesh is what I’ve used also. There is no way on my side hill, and the amount of deer that will do whatever they can to eat, that 1 post would do the job. I’ve got 6′ diameter fences around my trees with a thick layer of mulch to keep the watering down and weed away. This is what I would suggest for the trees around your house. It would be a lot of work and expense for the hunting land
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We use a Costco visa for gas(4%) + restaurants(3%), and Citi double cash master card for everything else(2%). The Costco rewards are only redeemable at Costco though. No annual fees on either one unless you count the Costco membership that we already had.
