Looking good!!!
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Ten four on the soil sample. one suggestion if you have access. Run a middle buster or a good turn plow on the edge of the plowed area closest to the tall pines to cut their roots that Will be leeching your food plot. Rule of thumb, a pine will have roots out as far as they grow tall.
looks like you will have your hands full this next season on hunting stands to sit and a place to fish. You have the saltwater access wrapped up, now you will have fresh water as well. Those composite boards you used for your dock, do you predrill and then screw them down or can you just screw them down? My wooden deck is deteriorating and I want to do that route when redoing.
There’s no shortage of animals I’m feeding lately…
“Another poon dream splintered on the rocks of reality.” --Peepod 07-25-2017
And yes Fred, for composite, you’ll have to predrill those.
“Another poon dream splintered on the rocks of reality.” --Peepod 07-25-2017
Bump bump bump. Compete sentence error
You’re not gonna start noodlin are ya?
Seems the pond has been a success, congrats!
Nothing better than that!
Thanks for bringing this back up!
Getting there…
It’s a lot of work, but well worth it. Thanks to friends, family, and some good members here. You know who you are. Much appreciated!
I left five or six oaks as close to my pond edge as you have some of your pines. Only one oak survived. All the others died. Not sure why. Maybe digging the pond did too much damage to the root systems. I don’t know. Pines seem to be much heartier. Hope you have better luck with those.
Looking good brother
If you want good grass growing around there, I’d go ahead and bring in some decent soil, get it spread evenly and spread seed out. Lime wouldn’t hurt, but probably not necessary to be honest. If you bring in decent top soil, it’ll be covered good in grass by this time next year.
The flat areas are pretty much native topsoil. I’ll plant grass there.
As for in and around the pond I’m hoping to collect some native plants. Cattails, elephant ears, lily pads, etc.
I’m all ears for any advice, etc.!
No cattails.
I’ll show you some pictures of why not tomorrow, too dark tonight
No cattails unless you are Mr. Maintenance. Say no to invasive bamboo also.
I like a Weeping Willow, and they love water.
Lilypads I don’t have experience with but I’ve seen some ponds over taken for sure. I would do my research on those too.
Are you going to stock it?
Yes, going to stock it.
Probably not doing cattails, based on y’alls experience. Are they invasive, like bamboo?
I forgot to take pics today, sorry. I’ll get on it.
but yes, basically they take over and area and it gets silted in. If you can get to them easily some might be ok, especially if you harvest a bunch every year. The hearts of the plant, (not the fuzzy hot dog looking top) meaning the inside of the lower stalks are eatable and quite good. They have a cucumber taste and texture like celery without the strings.
but overall, I would personally avoid them altogether
They are invasive and will tend to be a pain if you are trying to keep it looking good. It depends on what you want it to look like. I like a clean look on mine as it’s a ton of fun to throw the fly at fat bream.
I weed eat mine probably three times a year. If I let it go any more than that, the pond specific vegetation that grows in and around the waters edge gets too thick to cut reasonably with the weedeater.
Obviously, don’t use Roundup if you are going to have fish in there.