Recent content by Bark River

I potted mine right after I grafted and put them in the garage for a week (late March in Wisconsin so it was cold) I only grafted a few so I brought them in after a week and they took about 3 weeks to start pushing leaves. Proud to say that I have 100% success on all of my grafts this year and...

That’s sounds good! I was going to try cutting every other willow this year to leave some cover and see what the results are. It’s really mature and only bushy at the top and only trunks at the bottom. If not for the canary grass it would be very open in there. I’ve seen 8-10 deer come out of...

We have a river that cuts the 40 I hunt almost in half and there is an old steel bridge with wood decking on it at the south end of the property. It’s wide enough and strong enough to drive my pickup across and tractors. I watch deer walk across it all the time and tracks in the snow indicate it...

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...

If you have any scions you’d part with from that volunteer tree I’d definitely be interested in a couple!

Does anyone have late dropping pear varieties they will have scions from? I recently gained permission to plant fruit trees and have ordered a mix of 15 crabs, apples, and keifer pears but everyone is sold out of the later dropping pears. I would gladly pay for them! I thought grafting would be...