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Ok before you ask you’ll prolly not get a picture from me but I do I have a golden hornet crab thats starting to produce. The apples. Are much more green than the “golden” color you see in pictures on line or expect based on name alone. They do have that slight red blush on them that you see...

for the second time in two months the 50 year old man feeding my dogs left the kennel gate unlatched when he finished feeding , allowing the 12 year old treeing walker to escape. The first time he treed a bear and I could here him barking treed from the house. I drove up the road, parked...

picked up a white corrugated pool hose during spring clean up.. Planning on cutting it to size and splitting it up the middle for tree protectors- very simmilar to the ones you can buy...Anyone see a flaw in this thinking?? Cause our spring clean up was early and I can dump the hose at an...

Thumbs up to Orange Pippin Trees! Order came in on Friday- my day off- 3 golden comet crabs and 1 blue pearmain apple all on dwarf stock. Good root structure on all 4 and nicer trees from the roots up on all three crabs than I was hoping for. The blue pearmain was a little less stout, but...

have some chestnuts seeds I tried to stratify in peatmoss layering them 5 across with about 4-5 rows in the bag- punched a bunch of holes in the bag when I set them.......didn't check them all but the ones I did have a thick film of white mold around them- best to burn them and move on or...

10 dwarf alleghany chinkapins arrived yesterday from Empire Chestnut and my Howard Nursery order arrived today- bundles of winterberry, cranberry, crabapple, white spruce- some to their final home, many to the nursery bed!! still got some golden hornet crabs coming from Orang pippin (I...

Appreciate Tap posting the Tick protection thread- lots of good advice and lots of stories on what ticks can do to folks. thought I'd share my 13 year old sons story and what we've learned over the past 7 months: end of August son got bronchitis, antibiotic knocked it out of him pretty quick...

A friend says his neighbor used to bang hard around the tree trunks of his fruit trees if they were not producing fruit. The old fella said this stimulated the tree to produce fruit. in recent times Ive read a little about root trimming and cutting the bark, both of which I know little about...

I have a bunch of crab apple seedlings coming from the Howard nursery and will plant a few where they will end up, but would like to create a nursery bed for the others so they can stay there a year or two before I give them a permanent home. Can you folks please explain a nursery bed to...

saw that the "seed bank" for lack of the proper term was in the news again- various places that store literally 10's of thousands of seeds for safe keeping in the event of a catastrophic world event. when the world is ready to be replanted the bank will open or so it seems. My question is- many...

From Orangepippin trees: 3 Golden Hornet Crabs- dwarf rootstock 1 Blue Pearmain- dwarf stock all for around the house from empire chestnut: 10 Allegheny Chinkapins- several for the back of the home property and the rest for hunting camp From Howard Nursery; 25 bare root sweet crab...

Have owned our present home for about 12 years. Several years after moving in i bought some apple and pear trees from lowes and planted them. Pruned them a little and waited. As one year goes into the next we got a few apples and pears on some of the trees, but not a crop of apples on any...

I have a pear tree that uprooted during the weather from Hurricane Sandy. I was able to get it upright when I checked on it and it has been fine...Except the central leader must have weakened...and now has split kinda like those chinese handcuffs you put your fingers in when you were a...

Hi folks, got some bare root apple trees from Old VA Apples several years ago. Really happy with what they sent, how it was packed, communication, etc,etc.....Seems like their website has gone dormant. Anyone know if they are still in business. Their end of season specials were terrific! I do...

Hi folks, new to the forum. First question- looking at getting some hazelnut bushes from Badgersett, but they have several poor reviews- poor communication, incomplete orders, no orders, indifference on their part when it comes to some orders.... they appear to still be in business though...