@@Whitetail_Properties I took a look at my clover and it has been struggling. Looks like we might have a couple of days of rain this week. Hope it is on the increase for sure
Technically it was planted in the spring, had it not been drought conditions right after planting it would have been a productive plot. Can't control mother nature.
Wrong climate for a monoculture stand of buckwheat. It’s shorter maturing rate will have it going to seed long before fall crops need planting. One technique doesn’t fit all locations
@@Landandlegacytube Exactly. Everyone poopoos the gly until it's time to do the work. What are the options? Manual labor? Fire? Both seem great until you start looking at the downsides.
@@EHelms I'm all for burning, but it's rarely done for very good reasons. Firstly, it's expensive. This isn't something that your average person can safely do, or should be trusted with. If that fire gets away from you, it's really bad news, as I'm sure you can imagine. Secondly, it's expensive. A repeat, sure, but lets drive that point home. You need to use professionals who have to come out and visit the site, make a plan, apply for permits, and then wait on the weather. Time is money. Third, scale. Remember that part about how time is money? You can do a basal bark treatment on a woody plant and move on, knowing that the herbicide will soak in and stunt or kill it. Even a hack-n-squirt technique is pretty quick. Sure, both leave the dead material standing, but it's dead and will breakdown pretty quick. Fire is faster, but what do you do when you have acres of honeysuckle, or kudzu, or privet to contend with? When it goes up, it goes up strong, and it's very easy for it to get away from even professionals. Or you can do an herbicide application via drone much like they do with the crop fields out in the midwest. Fire is great, but you still spend hours on site cutting breaks so the fire can't leap where you don't want it. You have to hire a good crew, apply for permits, notify surrounding land owners, get ready for all the complaints about smoke, etc. I'd love to see controlled burns reclaim the million acres lost to invasives, but there's a reason why they don't do that. You'd think it'd be sensible and right, so everyone would jump on board. Unfortunately, the costs associated with a burn are pretty high, especially when you realize you have to burn the area three or four times to really remove the invasives.
