I'd normally agree on the lime. However my land is all limestone. Like.....i have sinkholes caves and stuff. My soil is crazy good for Indiana. Foerster already covered this with me. That's why my trees were so good. Owen county is known for sweet soil. I have germination already. 6 days later in desert dry weather.
I always keep my eye out for torn bags of fertilizer, seed, lime, etc. when I go to Home Depot. Any bag with a tear in it is 50% off!
I'll say this about brushpiles...as ugly as they are, hot damm the small critters love em! I've seen more birds since this started than the entire time I've owned the place. That's 7 years worth of birds in about 72 hours.
Got back to do more clean up but sadly I didn't take too many pics. This is a before picture And here's what it looks like now. You can't tell it, but I got alot of the brush burned and another 2 face cords of firewood. Some time was spent leveling out the newly visible dirt with the neighbors 8n, and then I seeded it too. Here's the flat (er) dirt. This will be a stacking area. That nice shady spot in the background of picture 2 is now my new wood staging and processing area. I also had to clear that out. I had a brush fire going for 2 days straight. The other piles in 2nd pic will get burned in the middle of the strawed area this winter. After all that work I was hungry. Me and a buddy made hobo dinners. Potatoes, carrots, onions, and pork tenderloin in foil. On the fire of course
Nice thread, and nice approach to this task (using a forester, cooperating with neighbors harvest, etc.). I wouldn't be surprised to have a few trees that look just fine now to suddenly give up and die due to the stress of the change over the next couple of years. Looks like a pretty spot. You'll be surprised at how quickly it "heals" and you adjust to the new look.
