Getting to be that time of year..
Anyone been out planting yet?
I have some Norway Spruce on order this year (not many).
I used to order from WDNR, but their minimum quantities are too high in my opinion.
I find tree planting rewarding & enjoyable.
With all the tree diseases nowadays, I try hard for tree diversity on my property.

Anothah couple of weeks and I will be.

I just got a notice that my order will be in next Friday. Weather permitting I should be planting on Saturday.

Planted one fire maple in the yard replacing a horse chestnut.
1 apple in yard
2 apple in our 30 tree orchard
2 plum
1 pear to replace a dead one we have 3

50 pines maybe Thursday as the rain is moving in m-t-w.

Pictures were 4 weeks ago.
I've been mowing between these 4 yr. Olds some doing way better than others.
I'll add 2 more apple trees ....plum and whatever else I can come up with to draw in deer and critters .

I'll be transplanting some. I usually buy some, but then after I get them planted I dig up some pines on thick areas of my property & move them to where I want some new growth.

Done kilt at least 20 pecans trying to get em started here. Gonna try to bucket raise em until fall then transplant.

You cant plant pecans in the ground from seed ?

I planted around 60 pear cuttings I treated with rooting hormone today. I don't know if they will root or not.

Keith

Planting 4 more apple here

Do you use a tree tube or fencing?

planted four maples ,an I just got 10 swamp oak , to plant

My grandfather had a rule when planting trees. “10 dollar tree, 100 dollar hole”

Explain?

I've heard the same thing from an arborist. Good advice.

I usually plant a couple of trees around my yard. This year I am going to try grafting . I winter pruned my apple trees, they hadn't been done for a while . Kept some dormant twigs , sines, from my yellow transparent tree. going to graft unto several , other's. Have some trees along my fencerows, The deer might like some harvest apples too. Anyone try grafting. Lots of info online. old243

i'm over 500 in the last 5 yrs.will get my yearly hundred in in the next week or 2.

labor of love for me.

So someone explain

roots and their structure i believe is the most important thing is kinda what they are sayin.

i'm more of a how ma nature does it.

If you bought a real nice $50 tree and dug a $5 hole , your results would vary.
Better to have a $10 tree and dig a $100 hole , you will get better results than with the latter. That is the way the arborist explained it to me.