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Re: Tree planting
[Re: Wptourist]
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05/08/22 06:49 PM
05/08/22 06:49 PM
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I like Black Cherry, the wood is a nice red color and smells nice when cut. The berries are small and birds and animals eat them. Not a tree if you want to put mast on the ground for deer, but great for diversity Every once in a while, around my area a whopper will turn up. Mostly small and crooked. But they do hang heavy with berries.
you're only allowed so many sunrises... I aim to see every one of them!
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Re: Tree planting
[Re: AJE]
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05/29/22 08:21 AM
05/29/22 08:21 AM
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We planted 3500 about 6 weeks ago.
Norway spruce Colorado blue spruce Canaan fir Fraser fir
But we have a Christmas tree farm, so.......................
Wollen nicht krank dein feind. Planen es.
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Re: Tree planting
[Re: mike mason]
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06/19/22 02:04 AM
06/19/22 02:04 AM
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How do you keep the deer out of the fir? If I planted Frasier fir, I'd have to fence them.
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Re: Tree planting
[Re: AJE]
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06/19/22 12:20 PM
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My time has come and passed for timber plantings, but I used to be a member of the NNGA (north American nut growers association) and read all their quarterlies. Out of that I had concocted the idea of planting a stand of multi-purpose black walnuts. Was going to plant seedlings and then graft on a timber species down low. (There was one I knew of that had purple heart wood), then I was going to graft on a nut species at about 8-9 ft and have a canopy of nut producing trees while keeping a straight timber bole for the future (probably my kid's).
Maybe some younger guy on here with the land and ambition will do it. If so, reach out for more particulars...
My fear of moving stairs is escalating!
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Re: Tree planting
[Re: AJE]
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06/23/22 01:07 AM
06/23/22 01:07 AM
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I mis spoke. Northern Nut Growers Association. They started out in 1910 with a contest for best nut quality black walnut. $100 first prize. From that contest we still have at least three named black walnut cultivars. The idea was to save superior genetic material before all the woods got cleared for agriculture.
My fear of moving stairs is escalating!
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Re: Tree planting
[Re: AJE]
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06/30/22 02:16 AM
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Do any of you know much about the difference between 2-0 and 2-2 bare root trees? I normally buy the smaller and less expensive 2-0. I got a deal this week from a nursery that was closing out it's large white spruce. Do I plant the 2-2 trees about the same as the 2-0 (i e. similar tool/technique)
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Re: Tree planting
[Re: AJE]
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08/07/22 12:31 AM
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I caged my 1st plum tree today. My 6 american plums I planted this year (bare root from Paint Creek Nursery) are doing great. The trees were only $1.75 each but the price of metal posts is killin me
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