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When do you want the screen most effective? If you want to go with shrubs try Ninebarks.

Got my 1st of season this afternoon. They moved into a stack of empty boxes I had stored in a temporary shelter.

Picked up my hazelnut order from the conservation district sale on Friday. They all looked good with nice roots. Got all 20 in the ground and cages on half of them. I’ll load up the SxS with wood chips 1 afternoon this week and finish them up. Found this trillium blooming under a tree top in a...

Busy couple of days. Cleaned up the hives that didn’t make it through winter, put out 4 swarm traps. I found a bunch of Shasta viburnum saplings while hanging a trap at my son’s rental so I called him and he said take as many as you want. So I managed to grab a half dozen that came out easily...

Looks like a pair of hooties with 1 displaying for the other

Well I guess the woodies liked the new additions. The Mrs. said that both were claimed by 8:30 this morning. Hopefully there will be a bunch of little fuzz balls hitting the ground in 4-5 weeks.

My wife has been watching 7 or 8 pairs of wood ducks trying to use all of the 5 boxes that we have hanging around the house for the last few days while I’m at work. So tonight after dinner I threw 2 together out of some scrap plywood and hung them in the backyard. Hopefully the ducks like them.

Pat, I’m in Northwest about 8 - 10 miles from Ohio

Our county had them this year, I ordered 20 but they won’t have them for pickup until the 24th. Did spend the evening digging up a dozen plus little hemlocks next to my driveway to transplant a little further back into the woods tomorrow

It had 2 main trunks about 4”. I put Kieffer on one and Ayers on the other. I never grafted anything before so we’ll see what happens. I did leave a nurse branch in case it doesn’t work out.

Top worked a bradford pear and cleaned up some blow downs blocking my trail from last weekend’s storms.

It’s mud season in NWPA. I couldn't even dream of planting something right now. We just picked up an inch of rain with the last couple of storms this evening in my part of NWPA. What was just muddy is now a swamp

Got the wood duck boxes cleaned out, new wood chips and rehung for the upcoming nesting season. Cut down a couple of bigger maples and a crooked red oak that were shading part of the greenhouse, garden and a couple apple trees until the grandsons came over. Not sure what wears me out faster...

I believe I’m at 100% loss for winter. Last couple of days have been in the upper 40s - low 50s and I haven’t seen any activity in the bee yard.

Took advantage of the mid-upper 40’s today. Got all the fruit trees pruned, hung a few new nesting boxes and played on the tractor some moving piles of snow back away from the driveway. Tomorrow I have plans of clearing out some shooting lanes and dropping a few garbage trees around my ladder stand.