Bulk Pine Plug planting

[roymunson]

Pond is filling up, but the plan is to put in some sort of evergreen in a bulk planting this fall. It'll go between the road and the pond and hopefully eventually grow up and double as visual cover for us when we are at the pond as well as a good way for deer to filter thru the area when it's hunting season.

We have access to a 3 point planter, and I intend to mow and spray it, but was wondering if you guys had done this before. Where did you get the trees? What species? My understanding is to get as big a tree as you can afford.

It's going to be a weird shape, but all told about 6 acres of trees total. So how many should I look at?

Thanks fellas

 

[Bill]

Honestly if there not big trees like BuckSutherland plants I’d skip it... or do a Gallagher double electric fence around the whole area until they are big enough to live on there own. I’ve planted thousands of plugs. Not one lives today.

except some red cedars I planted along the road in a fence line.

 

[TreeDaddy]

Honestly if there not big trees like BuckSutherland plants I’d skip it... or do a Gallagher double electric fence around the whole area until they are big enough to live on there own. I’ve planted thousands of plugs. Not one lives today.

except some red cedars I planted along the road in a fence line.

baby pines are Andes dinner mints to deer

bill

 

[H20fwler]

I've planted a bunch of 2'-3' white pines and am not in a high deer density area at all and the deer won't leave them alone unless they have some type of protection, they browse and rub the crap out of them. Have put in a lot of spruce 2'-4' also and in fall they want to beat up on those too if not caged. We have planted a few bigger 6'-7' root balled spruce and those they have left alone.
If you have a source for any cheap old rolls of farm fence that works great to keep them off trees until they are older.

 

[roymunson]

Maybe cedars are the answer. But i'm thinking a couple thousand of them... Deer didn't even let the sorgum get up last year.

 

[jsasker007]

I can plant spruce without any deer issues but pines don't have chance.

 

[jsasker007]

Maybe some kind of willow? They grow fast and get pretty thick