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So there is an off-chance I might be teaching English this fall, so I am putting this thread out there for suggestions for kids who may not have yet learned to love to read. I am an avid reader and have been since my parents smartly put a few copies of Field and Stream and Outdoor Life in my...

So I did a little grafting this spring back in about mid-April (some were various bought pear scion onto an existing Bradford pear and some were various of my own and bought apples/crabs onto a couple different existing apple trees). These are all at my house so I can (and do) keep a close eye...

So is like to talk about 2 plots here..one is at my grandparents farm..sprayed with gly and seeded heavily with a clover mix, brassicas and WR in late summer 2023. Was a killer plot that fall. Added some clover by overseeding spring 2024, then mowed in summer 2024. Plot got overtaken with weeds...

I’m in north central PA and haven’t pruned my trees yet. It’s supposed to get into the 50s tomorrow and the next three days then be above average temps for a few days after that…would like to go ice fishing today, but if the trees are gonna break dormancy I’ll skip the ice and do the pruning...

Tried to look into this question online but the answers were jumbled to say the least..can I graft some sweet cherry scion onto a wild cherry tree? Will it take? I got some sweet cherry scion to try to graft onto a weeping cherry in my front yard that while pretty, produces nothing…I am also in...

Going to be really jumping into grafting my pruned branches and some that I ordered onto other trees this year (not going for the rootstock grafting yet, am I don’t have that kinda time). How do you all tag your grafted branches so you remember what they are or do you just keep it in your notes...

Have an Anty tree that had a dead ash fall pretty much on top of it last summer. It knocked the top 3’ off the central leader down to height of about 3’ and hasn’t really recovered well. It has 2 limbs just below about a 2-4” nub of what used to be the central leader (kinda looks like a cross...

Have a couple large, mature pears (of indeterminate and mixed variety, think they are Asian?) in my front yard…they are between 30-40’ tall and this year several of them got lots of black spots (has happened in the past)on the leaves and did not produce many pears(first year there weren’t tons)...

Looking to get a dwarf or semi dwarf sweet cherry tree for my wife’s flower bed. Any suggestions for where I could get one or should I just scope out the end of growing season deals at the local Lowes? Also should I treat it like I do my deer trees with caging, weed mats, stones, etc…

Going to try a little something this summer/fall…the guy baling my neighbors hay went a little wild and took about a 25x75 yd swath on the edge of my field..thus leaving me a great spot for a new plot (yes I know it faces his house but he’s the game warden and don’t think he’ll do much...

https://www.accuweather.com/en/videos/my-tree-my-tree-dad-tries-to-save-tree-from-oncoming-tornado/4a3f23a1-48f5-434c-99d9-c030552b606b Admit it, we would do this (and maybe have already) but probably only for a good sized fruit tree, not an ornamental in the yard… I know we would all be sadly...

So I missed a few days of spraying in a row with Sevin on my newly planted (this spring and last fall) crabs/apples/pears and some of them got whacked pretty hard by Gypsy moth caterpillars. I did hit all of them thoroughly with Sevin tonight but it is now raining and will be cool and wet for...

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...