Barnyard reseed........I am on vacation this week

[DannyD]

Been living with this lousy excuse for a barnyard for too long. This area is behind my barn, but as you can see, no grass to speak of

 

[DannyD]

So with the landscape rake and a little tractor time I was able to clean this up and reseed/fertilize and rake in a new sown yard.

 

[DannyD]

These are my Chinese Chestnut trees, just beyond my barn. Used to be the deer would come up to them and eat with us in plain view watching them. They dont come as close since someone took up all the cover woods beside us to build a house.

 

[DannyD]

This shot shows my wifes most successful garden attempt.........some gourds/squash plants in the rip rap that I used for erosion control on the bank.

 

[DannyD]

This is the other half of the barn yard area I am going to work on. The other side is full of japanese clover that is slowly but surely dying after a good soaking with weed killer. After it is gone, I will be landscape raking this area to get ready for planting seed and hopefully having a good looking yard. Light green/yellow area is clover that is going away. If I can get a good stand of grass this clover will not thrive

 

[Wood_Butcher_Dav]

Is that a tractor badge of honor on the corner of the building? /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Dave

 

[DannyD]

you had to notice that..........come on.........and yeah fraid so.

 

[have_blue]

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I noticed it too, but that's because it looks just like mine. :O

 

[DrRod]

Greetings,

We had a row of Chinese Chestnuts along our fence line and, at the age of 60, 11 of 12 died. I have written to a number of web sites and colleges and everyone says it had to be something in the environment. But its unlikely anything was sprayed there and I can't think of a thing that changed. Actually the only thing that changed was a planting of Christmas trees in the field but they were way outside the drip line and the "experts" tell me that this wouldn't do it.

Since then I've replanted and, despite a few losses along the way, I think I have them going pretty well. They are still small so I put little wire fences around them to discourage deer but the leaves are still eaten by bugs a bit.

In any case, I think they are one of the great pleasures of country life. Best of luck with yours.

Thanks,

Rod