Recent content by Native Hunter

At my farm this year, I have an incredible crop of pears on the high ground, with only a couple of trees up there getting bit badly. However, in the low spot I have 5 different varieties, and I can only find fruit on one of them - and that tree is not very loaded. The other 4 varieties look...

I would read them, but I'm afraid my doe factory would find out and leave me! 🚌 🦌

I have several persimmon trees in my low, frost pocket areas, and so far I can’t recall them completely failing to fruit. However, that is where the pears get hit frequently. The bloom time for apples / crabapples will always be somewhere between pears and persimmons, and the crop failure rate...

I love both pears and persimmons, but pears do get freeze damage often while persimmons seldom do. Both pics below were taken today and illustrate why this is. Pears are already dime sized and persimmons haven’t even leaved out yet. PS - I have a tremendous pear crop this year despite a few...

I've been well aware for a long time of how tech heavy the S&P 500 is. I didn't need anyone to "explain" that to me. My concern was not being in tech, because I desire to be heavily invested in tech. My concern was having too many eggs in only one tech stock - especially one that has shot to...

I can't be of much help for New York, but where I live Sawtooths are a welcome addition to my planting. They grow and produce quickly, and the deer love the acorns. My best producing native oak so far has been Swamp Chestnut Oak. The acorns are so sweet I can eat them myself without leaching...

Here is what I would do: 1. Stand it back up with a tractor and front end loader. 2. Rope it off to a couple of sturdy trees in the background. A brace would be good too - maybe a couple of 14 foot 4x4s forming a V shape against the tree. 3. Dump a lot of rock on top of the ground all around...

I thought of that too, but I've never seen curly dock touched. Of course, we all know that deer often do what we say they won't do. Could you put an exclusion cage around one of those?

It might be wild asparagus, but I'm not certain of that.

Bill, I haven't topworked an infected tree, but I see no reason that it wouldn't be okay to do if you cut it off quite a bit below the infected part.

Yes, unless it changes with age that is the case, and Golden Hornet Crab has the same issue for me. I think it has a lot to do with my area of the country, because I don't see northern guys having that problem. Recently in another thread I stated the following: For me most apples fall too...

Sure, I can tell you about 30-06. It’s blooming right now and still holding 85 or 90% of last years fruit.

I got my first crop last year, and it was a big crop of large apples. For me the tree was done dropping before Mid September, but what you read on the Internet says much later, It seems that most apples drop much earlier for me than what I read. My tree came from Gurneys, and here is what...

You should try Sundance if you haven't already tried it. It has a similar taste and seems bulletproof in DR.

My faith is too weak.........