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I know this isn’t shipping related, but check out this little Death Wish popping out blossoms like a champ..pretty excited for this one moving forward, even if those pretty little flowers will all get pinched off this year…

At my house it’s fruit tree planting maintenance and food plot checking. We love to take the kids and walk “up top” to the 3 acre field where most of the action happens. I’ve got my almost 3 year old “checking” the newly planted fruit trees for leaves/buds now. Also starting working on clearing...

I grafted 3 different varieties of pear onto a callery pear in my front yard today (Seckel, Korean Giant and a late dropping pear from my friends yard). Grafted 2 Scion of each onto the same limb so I could remember what each one was (all but the friends had at least one tag). Hoping to get a...

We’re not jealous..really we aren’t…

Guessing I still have to wait a while as the buds are just getting ready to pop on the callery pears near me…

I think we’ve all said that before..and it just doesn’t work!

I’m cautiously optimistic about it got good roots out and didn’t cut many plus pruned both trees back a bit.

Picked up my first order from Whitetail Crabs (3 trees) this week and decided to transplant 2 trees that were in bad spots (one Arkansas Black that I planted too near a black walnut and one Liberty near some cedars that just didn’t get much sun). Both are not slightly over 6’ tall after 4 years...

I know I’ve got some old hay and Timothy, a little Johnson grass, some Carolina horsenettle, smartweed and a little crabgrass and assorted other broadleaf weeds

Wow you guys have some awesome ones..we find very distinct and clear starfish fossils in our one patch of woods that is at like 1200’ of elevation..

So is like to talk about 2 plots here..one is at my grandparents farm..sprayed with gly and seeded heavily with a clover mix, brassicas and WR in late summer 2023. Was a killer plot that fall. Added some clover by overseeding spring 2024, then mowed in summer 2024. Plot got overtaken with weeds...

Yep switched the remesh cage out for the smaller one..the bigger cage is needed elsewhere and I have a couple of those longer skinnier cages for my bigger trees…hoping this one gets some fruit this year its a chestnut crab on M7 that has been in the ground for 4 years and has yet to give me any...

Finally got around to staking this tree up straighter. Used a long landscaping stake and had a ratchet strap lying around and some cut pipe for around the tree. Not quite as soft as a hose but I think it should work…here’s hoping that tree straightens out!

Someone posted on here that’s it’s ok, temp/forecast depending, to start grafting when the leaves get to like dime sized or so on the limbs you’re grafting onto

I’m doing the same with a callery I found in my front yard..I’m leaving 1 branch as a nurse branch then grafting some of the pears at my place and some scion I ordered onto it..hoping for a 12 or so in 1 Frankentree when it’s done!!