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Got a sweet little Chestnut crab on M7 rootstock from Turkey Creek that has been in the ground 3 years and is just starting to bud out..have noticed that it’s leaves have been chewed on by something even now and saw a few small brown-green beetles on the leaves yesterday..really want this tree...

So it finally happened after a few small burns..had one get away fro me yesterday..took my weed torch up to the 2 food plots above my house and planned on just hitting the higher dead grass/weeds that I had left standing as a kind of break in between the 2 plots and at the top near the fence...

I know it’s too cold now, but here in PA we are having a very warm end to February. Is there a dramatic negative effect on grafts if it freezes/frosts? I know I need to wait a few weeks, but last year I waited too long and I don’t want to do that again…my issue is that it looks like the latter...

So got a bunch of clover, chicory and alfalfa to broadcast in the next month and a half or so..wondering about timing on certain things..I plan to frost seed some Alice, domino white, alsike, WI and Dutch white clover in about the next 2 weeks (I’m in Northern PA if that helps). Then I also have...

So I currently have 37 trees ( of 28 different varieties) in my tree/food plot, very few of which have fruited (oldest tree planted in Fall 2021). I need to do some pruning in the next few weeks. Is it worth it to save the scion from pruning and make several of my larger trees Frankentrees or...

Thinking about trying a planting of a brassica mix and maybe some GRO brassicas in one of the 1/2 acre plots above my house. Really want to have some good, tall cold weather food as this year all the properties around me that had corn also had a majority of the deer (it wasn’t harvested until a...

So this one is a bit of a stretch but hear me out…want better cover in a 1.5 acre former hayfield…right now it has some decently tall (call it 4’) standing hay with some small trees and briar patches beginning..I want this to be a thicket of sorts, with briars and shrubs and great bedding cover...

Hey everyone! Just wondering about a cheap but functional cider press to get for my parents in the ~200$ range….they made some cider this fall using a friends press from a prolific tree in their front yard and it was the best, most refreshing cider I’ve ever had..also kind of an Indian gift as I...

So I have a 3 acre field above my house in the shape of a sideways ice cream cone..with the skinny end to the East. The easternmost acre of the field is a food/tree plot. In the West side of the field (the big end of the cone and near my Western property line) I have a screen of 5 rows of pine...

Planning to plant some apples/crabs this weekend as my state (PA) ends archery season on Friday and starts bear season (which I don’t hunt) on Saturday..and I live close to Whitetail Crabs and Terry is cool and allows me to pick up some trees in the fall..I’ve done this for a couple years and...

Just kinda thinking through my planting strategy for next week (picking up 6 trees from Whitetail Crabs) and the spring (picking up 7 more trees from Blue Hill) to add to the 31 trees already in my tree plot. The field they’re going into looks like a sideways triangle with the skinny end...

I have ~20 1.5 year in the ground white pine/BHS/Norway spruce in a tree screen. I fertilized it in early June and have seen good growth. My question is, as conifers don’t drop leaves, is it ok to fertilize again or will this mess the trees up from going dormant or something? I have some...

So this is a weird question and may have already been asked but anyone got a good resource for how to grow oaks from acorns. I’m sitting near a big white oak and have been covered up in deer all morning. I know they take a long time to produce, but if there is this level of attraction I would...

Hey everyone, This is a bit of a stretch but I believe somewhere in the past (I skimmed the forum posts briefly and couldn’t find it) that someone had mentioned that if you have thistle in your field there is some nutrient missing. I cannot remember what it was. My front field has just one...

So In talking to my father in law he has agreed to help me put in a half acre food plot in an old existing pasture. Right now it is just thick weeds about 2-3’ high. We have access to a brush hog, 4 wheeler sprayer and a nice 6 foot tiller (though I think he is hesitant to use it). My plan...

Well fellas...I got a new job which does not involve sitting at a desk for 8 hours a day...I will be moving on from running a chemistry stockroom at a university to surveying for an engineering firm so my multiple posts a day (thanks for putting up with them) will probably be coming to an end. I...

Have this little Arkansas Black that has been in the ground for 2+ years. I have in other posts talked about it’s pruning. I took off a limb as a few of the fellas suggested then we haven’t had a good rain since. Also, this tree is planted pretty close to a black walnut that is just leading out...

So I am new to this grafting business and was wondering about grafts surviving a cold snap. I grafted 4 scions onto existing apple limbs last week and now the temp is supposed to dip below freezing (~30 I believe) for the next 2 mornings. Do I need to protect them in any way or do I need to...

Looking for any offbeat and cheap suggestions for fencing around some new trees going in next weekend. Was thinking of using a 10’x5’ Remesh sheet but they are not sold in my area and the 2”x4”x50’ fencing that I need is 100$ (I remember a couple years ago a 150’ roll of Remesh was $150!!) open...

Hello everyone, Just wondering if I should leaf blow or rake the leaves off of my plot before frost seeding in about a month or so? I have never done this, but have heard it can help and I got a suboptimal growth of my frost seeded clover last year and am trying to figure out why (I did seed...