Lot2Learn
5 year old buck +
I’d like to plant some wildlife shrubs this Spring and I’d appreciate your comments on my plan.
Thanks in advance for your help, Lot2Learn
- Shrub: cuttings of elderberry, arrow wood, and ninebark from bigrocktrees.com
- Location: Some sites ‘full’ sun, other sites ‘half day’ sun, planted around the perimeter of our food plots
- USDA Zone: 7a
- Timing: Planted very late March (my apple trees typically bloom in mid-April)
- Ground Prep: 3’x3’ lumite, being careful to cut a hole large enough to allow enough room for the stem to grow. Removed after two years of growth so that the shrub can naturally sucker and expand
- Depth: Planted so that 2 buds are above ground
- Growth hormone: Yes
- Protection: 5’ wire cage, 2’ wide (is that big enough?), removed after 3 years. Two cuttings of a single variety in each cage.
- Spacing: Shrubs planted 10’ apart
Thanks in advance for your help, Lot2Learn