@@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751 you're welcome. This weekend I'm going to try my hand at transplanting some red osier on my place. Can't wait to see how it takes in the spring
Hi Jeff My 8 inch dogwood clippings are now a foot hight & leafing BUT they are covered by 3 foot swamp grass ,should i be pulling that grass to get more sun or leaving it to protect the young Dogs......Thanks Doug
For further explanation, some of you may enjoy this article I wrote close to 5 years ago about my concept of creating these browse plots ☺️ www.whitetailhabitatsolutions.com/blog/natural-browse-plot-creations-for-deer
And the hits keep on coming thank you so much for all of your wisdom I wish 40 years ago I had a chosen that job route I would have been so much happier in my life thanks again for sharing all this knowledge
Thanks for covering swampy areas. About a quarter of our hunting land is cattails and low land so any advice about this habitat is is useful and cover it more if possible thanks!
You are welcome E...thanks too, I know a lot of folks have to work with lowland which can be both good and bad. I will try to cover more when I can... thank you!
i am wondering is it better to plant cuttings of dogwood directly in the browse pockets, or plant them in planters for a year or so to baby them and then transplant them with a started root base. in my mind that would make them more brows tolerant then just sticking the cutting in the ground. what do you think?
Thanks Roy... definately working hard trying to get quality info out ☺️ Likely will not hit until mid June/ early July, but hunting channels begin to take off about late July and it should add a lot after the channel hits 100k. Hope to hit 150k by end of the year...a personal goal of mine!
Thanks for the information Jeff as that pertains to my property very closely. I already have some red osier dogwood growing. The deer really go for it.
I put a food plot in the middle of my 80 last year... Now reversing it back to bedding as I created an outside/in property with the food plot.. so your definitely helping me! Thank you sir
Thanks a lot Brian...all is great! Little getaway with Diane up in Eau Claire for a couple of nights in a spot we like to go ☺️ Hope you had a good V day!
Love the new format. Seeing things makes it so much easier to visualize these topics as you teach these tips. This channel has taught me so much the last few years and want to say thanks.
I have a 40 Acer property beside my 20 that is nothing but thick bedding. Should I worry about adding a bit of bedding on my place or try to focus on food and travel corridors?
Hi Jeff, I’m having a small pond drained this spring by removing an old “out of compliance” dam. It’s (obviously) a low spot and I believe will stay swampy. Sounds like a tailor made situation for red osier dogwood browse plot. When should I plant that? I’m in SW Wisconsin (driftless area). Any thoughts about where would I buy the plants? Any special subspecies?
Hi Jeff... another outstanding video!!! Your diagram looks like my 40... except my swamps have “wild raisin “ shrubs( at least that’s what we call them!) almost impenetrable!! I wonder if deer would browse on them if I cut them off?
Thanks a lot Dan! What is cool is when you cut and area out...making it secure, easy to move thru, etc...there may be a lot of other habitat that grows into it. I cut what I thought was pure tag alder in the UP of MI back in the early 2000s, and had trees and briars pop up. Amazing things can happen when sunlight hits the ground...
Jeff, I hunt the dry hill country of Texas. We have decent berry vines and wild flowers that the deer pick on, but I'm not sure what else they eat. Would it be advisable to simply thin through some juniper thickets and leave the dead falls as cages?
Can I blame you for losing my boot while trimming lol . Awesome video it been a while since I commented on a video. I don't see much red dogwood around where I live in New Hampshire . I'm guess I just dont notice it. I've been testing a few of the things I've learned from you . It seems like browse plots work better than other plots for me . There is a lot of food they would rather have . I hunt a lot of thick swampy areas, and have really thick areas around the swampy areas with Simi dry ground . All in all this is one of my favorite low pressure improvements.
That's awesome to hear Rob! Very cool...these can be pretty high powered and for a lot of circumstances! Ha, I've done that before too! Not good when you have to reach back down bare foot and bare hand to retrieve a boot either 😁 Thanks for commenting...always appreciate it!
Exceptional video to add to the rest! Love how this relates to the Northern New York properties with tag alders and red osier dogwoods. I just walked my property and found beds all along the pond or swampy are on little clumps of dry ground backed up to these dogwoods and you can physically see where the deer have browsed for their day time woody browse diet. Thanks Jeff been watching your videos and learning day by day keep up the great work and can’t wait for the next book whatever it may be!
Hi Neil...they prefer wet soil...damp soil. Not standing water. You need to make sure you kill the switch out of there and every other grass, in those pockets. Box elder is a great one...soft maple too. Hybrid poplar. Red dogwood are s little finicky. Once established they can take a beating but when young they are susceptible to drought, standing water and heavy browsing pressure.
Ok, I'll try a couple of those. I had commented to you a couple of days ago about my switch field that has layed down with snow. Big 7 acre field completely flat. Really disheartening.
Hi! I'm a PA native gardener and I found this while looking for advice on propagating red osier dogwood for hedging on my 2 acre suburban property. The the house is at the top of a steep slope with majority of the property, wooded floodplain at the bottom. We have alot of white tail deer, so we allow bow hunting. I'd like to renew the understory of the woods remove invasives and draw the deer away from the house. Your video plan looks reasonable, and managable for me, without the heavy equipment part. But, will planting a browse plot be considered 'baiting' by the game comission and be a problem for the hunters? Thanks, Tara
Hi Tara! Thanks I hope it helps and you have to check with your PA, but I know of no state where it will be considered baiting 👍Tou can hunt Iverson food plots and planted mast crops in PA so I am about 99% sure it isn't considered baiting...
I have a lot of RDD, many of which are over 6 foot tall, should I be cutting those back to knee height? I have a lot of willows as well, the beavers used to destroy those but back to about 8 feet or so. Do you recommend cutting areas of those down as well? I've had luck with RDD cuttings at home, taking a RDD and planting the stems in a pot after I prune in spring. then once they root out putting them in the garden to get bigger. Now, I get about 12 plants to root out in a pot of water, then put them into the garden....and i'm about 25% on survival by end of summer. Do you have any advise on that?
Would you cut willow brush out of a low area to replace with the red osier dogwood? Or just keep trimming willows back and letting them regrow? Thank you for the videos they are a great help and have definitely improved my families hunting land.
thanks Jeff! i have buckets of ROD cuttings i gathered this winter. do you have much experience stabbing cuttings into the ground to create ROD patches?
I was just looking at some of my taller red osier dogwood plants last weekend wondering how to get that browse to deer level, sound like cutting it and letting it regenerate is the way to go.
Most definitely Steve...so awesome that you have that to work with! I would also take cuttings from the areas to mow...create more pockets if you have the room. Maybe allow some friends to prune them for you that want the cuttings...
Good morning Jeff hope you & Diane enjoyed Valentine’s Day wondering if I were to get involved with this dog wood don’t really know where to put it know you see lots of properties but on the outside chance maybe you remember my lands layout & could give suggestions
Jeff...good info. Can you plant red-osier dogwoods within your hinge cuts, or do they need to be planted in a wet area?. Also what about planting stems of poplar within the woods? Where does one purchase stems to be planted? Just trying to plant some natural browse within the hinge cuts in the woods. Thanks...Bob
Hi Bob...thanks! They need full sun and semi wet locations...not great for in the woods. You have great browse within your hinge cuts already...lots of briars. Hybrid poplar can work...they just need to hit sun but can keep up with any of the surrounding growth. Best to place them back in the cuttings and out of the immediate reach of deer. John Walton from www.bigrocktrees.com is the best source by far that I know of or have heard about. John sells a variety of cuttings!
I have debated on trying to add some red osier dogwood to my property, but my deer numbers are high and I suspect they would browse them too heavily without some sort of large fencing. Just not enough acres to do that. Great video... keep em coming!
Upstate New York here. Grew up around what everyone calls "red brush". As I continue to learn species, I believe this is red osier dogwood. Could it be something else? Often 6 foot high or more and never notice much deer browsing it. Maybe need to get in with the brush hog above-the-knee height for new regeneration? Also you talk about the pockets of red osier dogwood. Any planting recommendations to fill in around the pockets? My property has a lot of goldenrod around it that's now flat and no cover with the snow.
Hey Jeff I love the videos and am starting to explore using more natural browse and creating browse plots. My land is northern MN and it’s almost 100% aspen with poplar and birch. I hear you say not to hinge or cut those. What would you do in a situation where that’s all that’s available. Small pockets of clear cutting?
You have to be careful because cost share assistance is great IF you can plant what the wildlife need and how they need it. Often you can some great cost share assistance to do things you would have otherwise done anyways...removal of ironwood, for example...and get paid for it. But don't let them talk you into removing bush honeysuckle or Autumn Olive in locations that leave the wildlife with zero cover. You just have to be careful that you aren't slanting your efforts towards future boards per food money timber practices, disguised as "wildlife improvements". There are ways to work around some of the bad recommendations...and still collect money ☺️ Each case is different and not every plan administrator is the same. I am not considering for my own land...
@@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751 Thanks for your response! I've seen terrible "wildlife plans" on my neighbors property in IL and don't want to consider it even though it lowered his taxes...
I have some tag Adler that is more solid ground that I am going to try some browse plots on my 40 acres. Going to get a flail mower for my 40 up tractor.
Great info Jeff I've been following your videos for the last year and have been very impressed with our no till food plots already. We just had our best deer season in the last few years in North Central Minnesota I'd like to think it was because of your advice. I'm interested in planting some dog wood in some low openings we have can you just plant them from cuttings in the spring if so what's the best way to do that ? Thanks again for all the great info. Corey
Thank YOU Corey I really appreciate it! Great to hear about your season and I love hearing about it 👍 You can easily plant cuttings...make a diagonal cut at the bottom of a branch, just below a bud. Leave a few buds on the cutting of about 12" or so. The lower buds on the ground are for roots...the above are for branches that will form. They are tricky because deer like to eat them...especially when young and a few inches high! They like moist locations and can tolerate standing water when older but not when younger. My first plants of red Osier dogwood we're back in 95 and I failed miserably ☺️ Purchases young ROD and planted them in an area that was too wet/flooded in the spring. I was 25 and it was an expensive lesson. In the open they may need to be caged as well...deer love them!
Thanks for the reply guys. Do I need to do anything with the grass that's already growing in that area or will it provide some protection for the dog wood ?
@@coreylundeen7446 the grass will outcompete the ROD...ROD needs full sunlight, so really anything outcompetes ROD when young. Really easy to kill the grass when it first pops up tho...and then stab the cuttings into the ground.
I'm really struggling to turn my Land into an inside out property because there is a 50 acre lake in the center of the 180 acre property do you have any advice as to what I could do?
Hey Jeff appreciate your hard work. I have a lot of similar ideas as you do when it comes to food plots such as layering rye and wheat. Works great here in southwest va. However not a big fan of hinge cut at all. Personally I prefer burns but my focus isn’t simple deer. I’m a huge turkey hunter and hinge cuts are just simply turkey killers except maybe for nesting. Keep up the good work tho!
Jeff, great stuff as usual. The whiteboard design almost fits my ground perfectly. Maintenance question. With cutting red osier dogwood, assuming we have to each June, do we cut it down to 6” or so and leave debris in place to break down? Cut the whole browse plot down or just travel corridors? Thanks again! Finishing my first book today. Ordering next one also.
Love the content never even thought of trying to create food outside of food plots. I remember the year After I did a select cut on my property I had the most daytime deer action I’ve experienced on my land so far. Of course I didn’t know why but it must have been all the woody regeneration.
Thanks Dustin...great tactic I try to incorporate into as many client plans as possible. Deer love and need the woody regen...and they need the side cover from the regen too. A win-win for them!
Do the cuttings regenerate easily, say clipping them, keeping them damp then just planting in the ground or do you have to re-root them before planting?
just clip the bottoms at an angle ,punch a small hole with a stick and push the clipping in ,I used about 8 " clippings 90% are doing fine ,Next time I'm gonna try some 24 "
In some of the colder/mountainous locations maybe...I do not think so anywhere else tho. You can always treat any browse location the same...hardwood or soft wood browse locations. I know of hunters that do the same with Honeysuckle pockets, where they mow locations down to hunt over. That was going on back in the 90s... Really any kind of deer browse from briars to shrubs to trees can be treated this way...
It’s February now when is the best time to put my mock scrape on my lease brother be safe out there and GOD BLESS you and your family and crew brother Amen 🙏
This type of dogwood is it like a regular dogwood and blooms in the spring and gets red berries on it bout early fall round august to the 1st couple weeks of September
Bad thing for me is we have 200 acres and half of it is fields that have gone fallow, we keep cut every three years, but it’s everywhere, hard to focus on certain areas. Can’t cover it all.
I love coming back to your older videos refreshing my memory great information Jeff
Some of my favorite videos are your classroom style ones. I personally appreciate the visual representation as well
That is great to hear...really going to do a lot more of this style with either diagrams, client drawings examples or both. Thank YOU!
@@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751 you're welcome. This weekend I'm going to try my hand at transplanting some red osier on my place. Can't wait to see how it takes in the spring
I enjoy them as well. I'm a visual learner.
Pictures are worth a thousand words with explanation on top is gold👍
Awesome to hear...really trying to hammer home my concepts as best as possible 👍 Really hope they help!
Hi Jeff My 8 inch dogwood clippings are now a foot hight & leafing BUT they are covered by 3 foot swamp grass ,should i be pulling that grass to get more sun or leaving it to protect the young Dogs......Thanks Doug
Thanks for adding the White Board Jeff. It helps making your points that much better!
For further explanation, some of you may enjoy this article I wrote close to 5 years ago about my concept of creating these browse plots ☺️
www.whitetailhabitatsolutions.com/blog/natural-browse-plot-creations-for-deer
I put three of these in last winter Jeff....they work fantastic! thanks!
Thanks Bill...awesome to hear Bill...and see 😁 I love how much work you put into your land! And I love hearing about the rewards. Appreciate it!
@@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751 I've had amazing hunting success the last three seasons and I owe it all to you Jeff!
And the hits keep on coming thank you so much for all of your wisdom I wish 40 years ago I had a chosen that job route I would have been so much happier in my life thanks again for sharing all this knowledge
Great stuff Brother! Thank You. God Bless...
Thanks a lot Bob I hope it helps a LOT. Have a great weekend 😊
God and His love and timing are Perfect. I pray for your well being. He has blessed you and us thru you. Peace
Thanks for covering swampy areas. About a quarter of our hunting land is cattails and low land so any advice about this habitat is is useful and cover it more if possible thanks!
You are welcome E...thanks too, I know a lot of folks have to work with lowland which can be both good and bad. I will try to cover more when I can... thank you!
i am wondering is it better to plant cuttings of dogwood directly in the browse pockets, or plant them in planters for a year or so to baby them and then transplant them with a started root base. in my mind that would make them more brows tolerant then just sticking the cutting in the ground. what do you think?
Getting near that 100 k subscriber mark. Congratulations. You are definitely putting in the work.
Thanks Roy... definately working hard trying to get quality info out ☺️ Likely will not hit until mid June/ early July, but hunting channels begin to take off about late July and it should add a lot after the channel hits 100k. Hope to hit 150k by end of the year...a personal goal of mine!
Can you do this even in areas where it isn’t moist and how do you plant
Your videos are changing the future of my hunting success. Top notch stuff! Thank you.... keep it coming!!!
Thanks for the information Jeff as that pertains to my property very closely. I already have some red osier dogwood growing.
The deer really go for it.
You are welcome Robert...I hope you try making some browse pockets 👍 Enjoy!
Thanks Jeff! Your adding to my to-do list , thanks for all the content
You are welcome Matt ☺️ Hard work = a lot of luck 👍
I put a food plot in the middle of my 80 last year... Now reversing it back to bedding as I created an outside/in property with the food plot.. so your definitely helping me! Thank you sir
Great video Jeff!! Hope all is well!!
Thanks a lot Brian...all is great! Little getaway with Diane up in Eau Claire for a couple of nights in a spot we like to go ☺️ Hope you had a good V day!
Whitetail Habitat Solutions that’s great!! Tell Diane I say hi!!
@@brianlenneman5032 will do...when she wakes up, lol
Love the new format. Seeing things makes it so much easier to visualize these topics as you teach these tips. This channel has taught me so much the last few years and want to say thanks.
I have a 40 Acer property beside my 20 that is nothing but thick bedding. Should I worry about adding a bit of bedding on my place or try to focus on food and travel corridors?
Great content as usual! Thanks Jeff!
Thanks a lot Todd!
Hi Jeff, I’m having a small pond drained this spring by removing an old “out of compliance” dam. It’s (obviously) a low spot and I believe will stay swampy. Sounds like a tailor made situation for red osier dogwood browse plot. When should I plant that? I’m in SW Wisconsin (driftless area). Any thoughts about where would I buy the plants? Any special subspecies?
Hi Jeff... another outstanding video!!! Your diagram looks like my 40... except my swamps have “wild raisin “ shrubs( at least that’s what we call them!) almost impenetrable!! I wonder if deer would browse on them if I cut them off?
Thanks a lot Dan! What is cool is when you cut and area out...making it secure, easy to move thru, etc...there may be a lot of other habitat that grows into it. I cut what I thought was pure tag alder in the UP of MI back in the early 2000s, and had trees and briars pop up. Amazing things can happen when sunlight hits the ground...
Jeff, I hunt the dry hill country of Texas. We have decent berry vines and wild flowers that the deer pick on, but I'm not sure what else they eat. Would it be advisable to simply thin through some juniper thickets and leave the dead falls as cages?
Can I blame you for losing my boot while trimming lol . Awesome video it been a while since I commented on a video. I don't see much red dogwood around where I live in New Hampshire . I'm guess I just dont notice it. I've been testing a few of the things I've learned from you . It seems like browse plots work better than other plots for me . There is a lot of food they would rather have . I hunt a lot of thick swampy areas, and have really thick areas around the swampy areas with Simi dry ground . All in all this is one of my favorite low pressure improvements.
That's awesome to hear Rob! Very cool...these can be pretty high powered and for a lot of circumstances!
Ha, I've done that before too! Not good when you have to reach back down bare foot and bare hand to retrieve a boot either 😁 Thanks for commenting...always appreciate it!
will your no till method of planting work if your doing it in crp big blue litte blue grasses or will I have to disk it then plant
This sounds like a perfect addition to my grandpas farm in northern Ohio. Any recommendations for planting?
Exceptional video to add to the rest! Love how this relates to the Northern New York properties with tag alders and red osier dogwoods. I just walked my property and found beds all along the pond or swampy are on little clumps of dry ground backed up to these dogwoods and you can physically see where the deer have browsed for their day time woody browse diet. Thanks Jeff been watching your videos and learning day by day keep up the great work and can’t wait for the next book whatever it may be!
Will a red osier dogwood cutting grow in an open sandy field that is a full field of switchgrass if I try to create those pockets you suggest?
Hi Neil...they prefer wet soil...damp soil. Not standing water. You need to make sure you kill the switch out of there and every other grass, in those pockets. Box elder is a great one...soft maple too. Hybrid poplar. Red dogwood are s little finicky. Once established they can take a beating but when young they are susceptible to drought, standing water and heavy browsing pressure.
Ok, I'll try a couple of those. I had commented to you a couple of days ago about my switch field that has layed down with snow. Big 7 acre field completely flat. Really disheartening.
Love the whiteboard usage!!!
Will red twig dogwood work too?
Hi! I'm a PA native gardener and I found this while looking for advice on propagating red osier dogwood for hedging on my 2 acre suburban property. The the house is at the top of a steep slope with majority of the property, wooded floodplain at the bottom. We have alot of white tail deer, so we allow bow hunting. I'd like to renew the understory of the woods remove invasives and draw the deer away from the house. Your video plan looks reasonable, and managable for me, without the heavy equipment part. But, will planting a browse plot be considered 'baiting' by the game comission and be a problem for the hunters? Thanks, Tara
Hi Tara! Thanks I hope it helps and you have to check with your PA, but I know of no state where it will be considered baiting 👍Tou can hunt Iverson food plots and planted mast crops in PA so I am about 99% sure it isn't considered baiting...
I have a lot of RDD, many of which are over 6 foot tall, should I be cutting those back to knee height? I have a lot of willows as well, the beavers used to destroy those but back to about 8 feet or so. Do you recommend cutting areas of those down as well?
I've had luck with RDD cuttings at home, taking a RDD and planting the stems in a pot after I prune in spring. then once they root out putting them in the garden to get bigger. Now, I get about 12 plants to root out in a pot of water, then put them into the garden....and i'm about 25% on survival by end of summer. Do you have any advise on that?
Would you cut willow brush out of a low area to replace with the red osier dogwood? Or just keep trimming willows back and letting them regrow? Thank you for the videos they are a great help and have definitely improved my families hunting land.
thanks Jeff! i have buckets of ROD cuttings i gathered this winter. do you have much experience stabbing cuttings into the ground to create ROD patches?
I just ordered 30 ROs should i plant around the perimeter of my foodplot or should they be clustered
I was just looking at some of my taller red osier dogwood plants last weekend wondering how to get that browse to deer level, sound like cutting it and letting it regenerate is the way to go.
Most definitely Steve...so awesome that you have that to work with! I would also take cuttings from the areas to mow...create more pockets if you have the room. Maybe allow some friends to prune them for you that want the cuttings...
Steve J I’m goin to see if I can get some at a plant nursery here we don’t have it growing in Tn I’ve never seen it
Good morning Jeff hope you & Diane enjoyed Valentine’s Day wondering if I were to get involved with this dog wood don’t really know where to put it know you see lots of properties but on the outside chance maybe you remember my lands layout & could give suggestions
Great stuff again..Maybe you could do a video on a client parcel.Where you walk into the unknown .
Thanks D! Maybe some day...that's what I do 90-100 times per year ☺️ I like to respect my clients privacy tho...but maybe will do that some day.
I would allow that on my property.
We have nearly 20 acres of willows, can they server as browse? What if above head high??
Jeff...good info. Can you plant red-osier dogwoods within your hinge cuts, or do they need to be planted in a wet area?. Also what about planting stems of poplar within the woods? Where does one purchase stems to be planted? Just trying to plant some natural browse within the hinge cuts in the woods.
Thanks...Bob
Hi Bob...thanks! They need full sun and semi wet locations...not great for in the woods. You have great browse within your hinge cuts already...lots of briars. Hybrid poplar can work...they just need to hit sun but can keep up with any of the surrounding growth. Best to place them back in the cuttings and out of the immediate reach of deer.
John Walton from www.bigrocktrees.com is the best source by far that I know of or have heard about. John sells a variety of cuttings!
@@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751 Thanks for your QUICK response.......
@@rfb7117 you are very welcome Bob ☺️ Trying to keep up with comments this morning for a couple of hours...while Diane sleeps, lol
Great....enjoy the time off. I sent you some pic's on email, not sure if you have time to ever look at your email.
I have debated on trying to add some red osier dogwood to my property, but my deer numbers are high and I suspect they would browse them too heavily without some sort of large fencing. Just not enough acres to do that. Great video... keep em coming!
Upstate New York here. Grew up around what everyone calls "red brush". As I continue to learn species, I believe this is red osier dogwood. Could it be something else? Often 6 foot high or more and never notice much deer browsing it. Maybe need to get in with the brush hog above-the-knee height for new regeneration? Also you talk about the pockets of red osier dogwood. Any planting recommendations to fill in around the pockets? My property has a lot of goldenrod around it that's now flat and no cover with the snow.
Hey Jeff I love the videos and am starting to explore using more natural browse and creating browse plots. My land is northern MN and it’s almost 100% aspen with poplar and birch. I hear you say not to hinge or cut those. What would you do in a situation where that’s all that’s available. Small pockets of clear cutting?
Can you tell me how that wall, that your marker board, WORKS?
What do you think about the WDNR program where landowners can enroll in the DMAP "to improve wildlife habitat?"
You have to be careful because cost share assistance is great IF you can plant what the wildlife need and how they need it. Often you can some great cost share assistance to do things you would have otherwise done anyways...removal of ironwood, for example...and get paid for it. But don't let them talk you into removing bush honeysuckle or Autumn Olive in locations that leave the wildlife with zero cover. You just have to be careful that you aren't slanting your efforts towards future boards per food money timber practices, disguised as "wildlife improvements". There are ways to work around some of the bad recommendations...and still collect money ☺️ Each case is different and not every plan administrator is the same.
I am not considering for my own land...
@@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751 Thanks for your response! I've seen terrible "wildlife plans" on my neighbors property in IL and don't want to consider it even though it lowered his taxes...
I have some tag Adler that is more solid ground that I am going to try some browse plots on my 40 acres. Going to get a flail mower for my 40 up tractor.
Great info Jeff I've been following your videos for the last year and have been very impressed with our no till food plots already. We just had our best deer season in the last few years in North Central Minnesota I'd like to think it was because of your advice. I'm interested in planting some dog wood in some low openings we have can you just plant them from cuttings in the spring if so what's the best way to do that ? Thanks again for all the great info.
Corey
Thank YOU Corey I really appreciate it! Great to hear about your season and I love hearing about it 👍 You can easily plant cuttings...make a diagonal cut at the bottom of a branch, just below a bud. Leave a few buds on the cutting of about 12" or so. The lower buds on the ground are for roots...the above are for branches that will form. They are tricky because deer like to eat them...especially when young and a few inches high! They like moist locations and can tolerate standing water when older but not when younger. My first plants of red Osier dogwood we're back in 95 and I failed miserably ☺️ Purchases young ROD and planted them in an area that was too wet/flooded in the spring. I was 25 and it was an expensive lesson. In the open they may need to be caged as well...deer love them!
This guy, Purpose-Filled Minnesota Habitat Management, has a short video on how he plants cuttings. I believe hes from NW of Motley.
Thanks for the reply guys. Do I need to do anything with the grass that's already growing in that area or will it provide some protection for the dog wood ?
@@coreylundeen7446 the grass will outcompete the ROD...ROD needs full sunlight, so really anything outcompetes ROD when young. Really easy to kill the grass when it first pops up tho...and then stab the cuttings into the ground.
I'm really struggling to turn my Land into an inside out property because there is a 50 acre lake in the center of the 180 acre property do you have any advice as to what I could do?
Where can you get red osier dogwood to plant???
Is red osier and red twig dogwood the same? And do deer eat bush honeysuckle? Please and thank you.
Jeff I have a lot of olive bushes in my area. Can I cut them down to get more browse ? Will they work for cover areas around food plots?
Hi Paul you can create pockets within Autumn Olive for excellent habitat diversity...and they do make excellent food plot edge screening and cover.
Thanks Jeff.
Great stuff (useable info)
Thanks a lot Norm!
Jeff, I have a question. Can red osier be multipurpose? Say browse/screening? Seeing as how it has a high growth rate got me curious, thanks!
Hey Jeff appreciate your hard work. I have a lot of similar ideas as you do when it comes to food plots such as layering rye and wheat. Works great here in southwest va. However not a big fan of hinge cut at all. Personally I prefer burns but my focus isn’t simple deer. I’m a huge turkey hunter and hinge cuts are just simply turkey killers except maybe for nesting. Keep up the good work tho!
Can you replant Redwood older dogwood?
You can replant cuttings from dogwood by stabbing them into the ground. Also mowing them regenerates them if they are taller and mature.
Awesome ty
Can henge cutting with oak trees
Jeff, great stuff as usual. The whiteboard design almost fits my ground perfectly. Maintenance question. With cutting red osier dogwood, assuming we have to each June, do we cut it down to 6” or so and leave debris in place to break down? Cut the whole browse plot down or just travel corridors? Thanks again! Finishing my first book today. Ordering next one also.
Love the content never even thought of trying to create food outside of food plots. I remember the year After I did a select cut on my property I had the most daytime deer action I’ve experienced on my land so far. Of course I didn’t know why but it must have been all the woody regeneration.
Thanks Dustin...great tactic I try to incorporate into as many client plans as possible. Deer love and need the woody regen...and they need the side cover from the regen too. A win-win for them!
Do the cuttings regenerate easily, say clipping them, keeping them damp then just planting in the ground or do you have to re-root them before planting?
just clip the bottoms at an angle ,punch a small hole with a stick and push the clipping in ,I used about 8 " clippings 90% are doing fine ,Next time I'm gonna try some 24 "
almost forget ,,you need to cage these or the deer will hammer the young plants
This red osier dogwood, Will it grow in North Carolina ???
In some of the colder/mountainous locations maybe...I do not think so anywhere else tho. You can always treat any browse location the same...hardwood or soft wood browse locations. I know of hunters that do the same with Honeysuckle pockets, where they mow locations down to hunt over. That was going on back in the 90s...
Really any kind of deer browse from briars to shrubs to trees can be treated this way...
Whitetail Habitat Solutions Kool, Thanks for ur reply 😁
@@shawnmyers9571 sure thing Shawn!
Especially during the pre rut
Awesome from mid Oct thru March...highly preferred and needed cool season resource ☺️
Not sure I've seen the red around here in Kentucky..or at least on my tract. More briars/blackberry around here for me.
Likely not that far South. BUT, briars and hardwood regen can be treated the same way...
Yeah I’m in north central KY and I don’t have any on my property either
@@kybucks5086 what town? Around Maysville/Tollesboro area here
Been looking for something for a wet ares
Making browse plot this year along my swamp good idea and cheap
Would you plant red oiser dogwood around the edges of a pond on a ridge to create some cover and browse?
On paper sounds like a great location...and may help combat erosion.
When you refer to replanting them do you need roots to replant or you can simply stick a cutoff branch into the soil?
Red osher dogwood is that the name of it brother
Will red Osier dogwood take and grow in ag fields that I am converting in diversity pockets?
It’s February now when is the best time to put my mock scrape on my lease brother be safe out there and GOD BLESS you and your family and crew brother Amen 🙏
Man you have knowledge!
Thanks Nathan, really appreciate it!
This type of dogwood is it like a regular dogwood and blooms in the spring and gets red berries on it bout early fall round august to the 1st couple weeks of September
Never seen "alder" rubbed. They destroy my young pines insteed. Great info !! Thx
How do you manage your land like this when it’s 75% of your hunting land?? 40% of it is red osier. 100 acres
The creation of food plots within that area is my problem, with neighbors sitting on the line 250 yards across
Hey brother how’s your day goin or night I should say
Bad thing for me is we have 200 acres and half of it is fields that have gone fallow, we keep cut every three years, but it’s everywhere, hard to focus on certain areas. Can’t cover it all.
Ok osier dogwood I’ll try to find it at a big nursery we have here close
I have 40 acres of red osier dogwood 😁
Just put in an offer on 40 acres....got some free time in your schedule Jeff? Lol
Congrats Chris!! Ha, Diane still has a couple spots in MI and 1 or 2 in WI. Maybe 2 in OH? That's it thru January ☺️
@@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751 yeah my brother and I are pumped. Just waiting for whitetail properties to get it going!
But we both discussed working with you if it all works out. I'll keep you updated!
I bet you guys are so pumped!! Keep me posted ☺️ Or Diane, ha...the BOSS!
@@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751 lol. My "boss" let this happen. Will do
First! Woohoo
Ha, great job Barret you win 😁 Diane wants you to know that she was the first to LIKE it tho, lol
@@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751 hey and its early on Saturday morning😂
Ha, it sure is ☺️ Hope the vid helps!
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