Recent content by cavey

It sucks - just when your trees have gotten past the stage of any real type of deer damage beyond rubbing, and the trees get strong enough to deal with the coons.... the bears show up . I have no advice beyond pruning and praying. Bears are a battle I cant compete with. The amount of damage...

ya... me and the buck hung out for a bit underneath the 4x4. It was cozy leaves and all - my browning took the brunt of the blow; after my safe landing on the ground all sprawled out I had just enough time to think about what was coming next... You get an extra boost of adrenaline when your...

When you get the bright idea to use your atv to drag your buck up to the logging trail and you also have a high degree of confidence that the tiny sapling in the way will just fold over with a little bit of throttle.....

I have two out of the nursery and planted, i expect it will be a couple years - but might get lucky and see an apple or two hanging next year. Its always cool to reach up and grab that first apple and take a bite. Im finding a lot of my apples taste the same.. more often than not its the...

"The best time to plant a tree is 10 years ago!" thats my theory with apple trees.... Blacks walnuts -- Im thinking 50 years ago ! lol After husking and doing the spin and rinse / float test I have about 1/2 a 5 gallon bucket to plant. Which is perfect for what I want. Only 5 or so floated...

I hear what your saying and agree. Im going to run the husked nuts in a 5 gal bucket to clean them off, float test them and will direct seed them here in a bit in a bed in my nursery. I might for kicks grab another bucket of dropped nuts husks and all and direct seed them too - segregated but...

I have been waiting for some of my younger trees to start hanging fruit.... My first Whitney crab apple taste test (good flavor - a little soft, being a crab I thought it would be crunchy) then I had the surprise --- I did not remember grafting black berries onto the tree. I had to do a...

I made a wire cloth cage for drying them out - it was close to 4x8 and worked like a suit case - that would have worked had I still had the thing.

I saw a video of a guy taking whole nuts husks and all - dumping them into a bucket and filling with water - electric power drill and a plaster mixer and just blend away, goes slow at first then the husks just shred off leaving the nuts. Its crazy how strong the nuts are.... I seen vids of...

Years ago, I made drying cages for them then just direct planted them with very little luck. On a whim here yesterday i saw them dropping- and having two BW trees in the back yard I grabbed a wheel barrow half full of them. Looked up on google "how to" and decided to give this a try. I will...

My tip of the day, for those of you that want to try and harvest black walnuts to plant in the spring - just buy seedlings.... I've done seeds from oaks, I have done others as well - and I knew walnuts can stain. I was wearing rubber gloves but they had a tear or two. The nuts were still green...

Waiting on trailman for a taste test, but I have always loved my chestnut crabs !

Definitely with softwood planting - especially with hand spade planting - no point in trying to plant if the roots are bigger than the hole and your bunching them up at the bottom. I have a softwood planting spade that is smaller and built for speed and a larger hardwood spade that makes a...

Give it a shot !

I like your way of thinking, my goal is food sources 24/7/365 with apples and crabs helping from fall to late winter. What you said makes good sense - chestnut crab is one of my favorite to eat ... I have trailman and kerr in waiting for them to produce cant wait to try them.