Recent content by CedarSwamp

I’m in zone 4. I’ve read so many great things about pears yet for some reason I’ve never planted any. I should plant a few to see how they do. I’ll definitely go heavy on late crabs! My oldest orchard looks amazing again this year and guessing it’ll be our most productive camera location for...

I meant to start doing this for both bloom time and drop time. Hopefully you’ve motivated me to actually follow through with it this year!

I have had good luck with Liberty, Enterprise, Eves Delight, Connell Red, and some more that I don’t have labeled for holding on into winter. The past few years I’ve switched over to planting crabapple trees. I’m very high on Kerr....I think it’ll be my all-time favorite based on the qualities...

Thanks for all the replies. I feel better about getting more trees there especially for late season. Last winter the deer would come religiously to check for the falling mushy apples. It would be great to have as much as possible falling in that Nov - March time period. I know some years they...

Am I stupid to plant up some of our food plots into more apple trees? We have a 360 acre chunk of land and our land is typical of the surrounding area which is mainly corn, beans, alfalfa, winter wheat fields and the rest (over 50%) wooded/swamp. We have a lot of prime bedding areas on our...

Just got a food plot expanded so we can plant apple trees and have a food plot. Chestnut, Kerr, and Dolgo will be my top 3 trees in this orchard. Hope to plant 10-20 trees depending upon how much room we decide to save for trees vs food plot. If I had my way we’d plant every food plot full of...

We mix clovers with our brassica mix every year. Not sure what percent of your mix is radish as that’s a larger and heavier seed than the rest in your mix. We plant 5# total of PTT and DE Rape. Usually 3# of one and 2# of the other spending which one we want more of in the plot. Then we do 5#...

Sounds like you should buy more land and clear out more room!

We cage all of our swamp white oaks and we also keep the base of the trunk protected from voles while they’re young. I’m not sure how susceptible they are to girdling but we don’t take that chance. Our deer will eat the trees up while they’re young with they are not protected. My favorite tree...

Any update from anyone on here regarding hardiness of different chestnut varieties? I don’t expect any to survive in my area or produce mask but I’m going to experiment anyways. I saw online that badgersett looked fairly hardy, but most of what I can find on them is from around 2015 so not sure...

Those look great! I’m sure I’ll be planting a bunch next spring!

For sure Habitat. I could do habitat projects from December thru August and be content watching family hunt from Sept thru November. I’d rather plant a tree than hang a bow stand! I love both, but my passion is habitat! I hope my work creates a paradise for my kids, nieces, and nephews to enjoy...

The Fleet Farm in Green Bay, WI has quite a few left yet too. I don’t know if they were on sale. I’ve been keeping my eye on them Incase they get cheap. Lots of good varieties as stated above and on M7 rootstock. I don’t need anymore for this year, but if they get cheap enough I’ll buy some...

I’m an hour North of Green Bay so I’d probably have similar experience to you. I’ll try some hybrids and see what happens. It’d be amazing if I could find a variety that works.

https://stlawrencenurseries.com/collections/nuts-1/products/hazelbert-corylus-sp?variant=28104180871 Hazelbert must be what you planted. Looks like a great option