Bark River
Yearling... With promise
I have a bedding area that I’m going to be working on this year and one of my plans is to take red osier dogwood cuttings and plant them as some side cover and browse. Currently there is only what I believe to be black willow growing in the area as it’s river bottom. The willows have gotten too mature and while it looks thick from the outside I can walk through it pretty easy. I haven’t stepped foot in there in years and only did this year as it seems to be not holding the numbers it once did. I’ve never done cuttings and have been messing with them this winter to try it out. Almost a month has passed and I was about to give up but this week I noticed several of the ones from my first cuttings are finally sprouting! I’ve ordered American plum to plant in there in hopes it will form thickets and I’m cutting back some or all of the black willow in hopes it will thicken up. I’m open to any other suggestions you may have. The landowner (my father in law) has given me free range over that 2-3 acre area. It’s low river bottom that seasonally floods in wet years. I’ll be adding several transcendent, Dolgo, and Arkansas black apple trees to the clover plot that’s adjacent to the bedding area and safe from flooding. I wish I had found Blue Hill earlier as all his stuff is sold out but I’ll be adding several of his varieties of pears and apples next year!
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