Anybody planting trees this spring
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Anybody planting trees this spring
My tree planting starts tomorrow. Im planting 200 red pine and 100 white spruce for bedding. Then the end of April im planting 50 speckled alder, 8 pear trees, and 10 sugar maple. I get most of my trees in plugs not bare root. Much easier to plant.
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I'll putting in 250 Norway spruce and 250 mixed hardwoods.
All are bare root stock, just waiting for the nursery to call.
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trapper57 wrote:I'll putting in 250 Norway spruce and 250 mixed hardwoods.
All are bare root stock, just waiting for the nursery to call.
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That's cool. This is my third year planting trees on my 23 acres. Ive planted over 1500. Im 39 hopefully by the time I retire they will be good habitat. LOL.
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These are just to replace deer/rabbit damage over the winter.
I have have a 35 acre field that was machine planted last year.
The total planting was around 25,000 trees.
It was a mix of half pine and half hardwoods.
The deer like to eat the white pine.
So I'm replacing the damaged pine with spruce.
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I have have a 35 acre field that was machine planted last year.
The total planting was around 25,000 trees.
It was a mix of half pine and half hardwoods.
The deer like to eat the white pine.
So I'm replacing the damaged pine with spruce.
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This is my first year planting red pine. Mostly planted Norway spruce, hybrid oaks, and some fruit trees. We have a moderately high deer density. I had to tube and cage all the fruit and nut trees. There was some light nipping on the spruce when we had the bad winter. This winter they did'nt get touched. I heard white pine is deer candy in winter time why I stayed away from them.
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Seems like the first year planted, white pine get hammered.
After that first year not as bad.
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I have 6 apple trees and 8 Chinese chestnuts I will be planting next weekend nusery said they will be in next week
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trapper57 wrote:Seems like the first year planted, white pine get hammered.
After that first year not as bad.
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Sometimes the first 5 years, I usually keep them protected for 3-4 years and they still get pounded pretty good when I remove the fence. By that time they are pretty tall and its not a big deal but the deer still hit them pretty hard.
Also looking to plant some walnuts this year, have 3 apple trees but always thinking about adding a few more.
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I'm helping my son plant some red pines and white spruce in a few weeks.
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5 Kieffer Pears
400 Norway Spruce
400 Black Hills Spruce
400 Norway Spruce
400 Black Hills Spruce
If it bleeds, we can kill it . . . .
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My 2 apple and 2 peach trees are doing good. I thought I had lost on of the peach trees, but I got fresh leaf sprouts last week on the tips of it. My other peach already has 7 little peaches growing on it.
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Great job guys- watching trees over the years is very satisfying, especially when your work starts producing. I've planted thousands over the years.
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I planted 30 white pines (about 5ft tall) on my land about 3 years ago. Actually it was the year we had a crazy cold winter in wisconsin. I planted them in the fall and they all turned brown by end of winter. To my surprise they made a comeback. Now they are starting to turn brown again but have prolly grown a couple feet. Anything i can do to save them or are they done?
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Re: Anybody planting trees this spring
This week I'll be planting 100 red osier dogwood, 100 gray dogwood, 100 silky dogwood, 100 persimmon, 50 Allegheny chinquapin, 50 each of crabapple and American plum. sheltering the majority. I've been using these for a few years http://www.growtube.com/products/treeshelter/ with a bamboo stake. They are definitely the way to go. All of the dogwoods are going on clearcut edges to create a soft edge and transition/bedding /winter food source. and I'll put the soft/hard mast in some key ambush spots to give the big boys an incentive to move early. all for the purpose of future dividends.
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Bigburner wrote:This week I'll be planting 100 red osier dogwood, 100 gray dogwood, 100 silky dogwood, 100 persimmon, 50 Allegheny chinquapin, 50 each of crabapple and American plum. sheltering the majority. I've been using these for a few years http://www.growtube.com/products/treeshelter/ with a bamboo stake. They are definitely the way to go. All of the dogwoods are going on clearcut edges to create a soft edge and transition/bedding /winter food source. and I'll put the soft/hard mast in some key ambush spots to give the big boys an incentive to move early. all for the purpose of future dividends.
Interesting I've never seen the blue tubes before. Always used tubes from treepro.
I had to delay my planting because of the snow today. Got some scouting and shed hunting in insteas.Also straightened out my existing tubes that where almost bent over to the ground. Good thing about container seedlings they stay good for along time in the stryofoam
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