Recent content by nrowles

Got it. Thank you

Very thorough and detailed. Thanks for taking the time to do that. As a note, right before taking these pictures I already removed a 5 gallon bucket of apples off my 5 trees. I kept maybe 6 apples or so on each tree. Regarding the first tree, your comment states to go with the middle leader...

I'm going to try and lay this thread out as straight forward as possible. Hopefully someone has enough patience to help me out. Knowing what I have with these trees and what to do with them is very confusing for me, even after watching a bunch of videos. I didn't know too much of anything...

Pennsylvania

Bummer. We were looking forward to eating these apples. based on my situation, After removing the apples should I prune the trees now in dry summer or wait until late fall?

I planted these trees May of last year. A couple of them put an apple on by fall and this year they exploded. Not sure how old they are but I am very pleased. We had a really bad/windy storm come through a week ago and it deflated a couple of the trees. 3 of 5 still look good. 1st picture...

Since I want to get this done rather soon and I'm not currently aware of any used rolls of fencing, I'm planning to go to tractor supply for a 100' roll of 5' welded wire which would give me a 6' cage for each tree. However, a buddy of mine has a large amount of 8' fencing previously used that...

Thanks for all the valuable information and videos and pictures. I definitely didn't do my due diligence with this project. I always heard there is quite a bit of care for the trees with pruning and weed control and all that but never considered how much money and effort goes into the...

Wow. Guess I didn't know what I was getting myself into here. I wasn't too worried about it until I paid 75% more for the trees this past weekend than what I remembered the price being. I will have to read back over the responses again later but I live in the "pallet hub" of the country so I...

I bought 5 apple trees over the weekend and got them planted. They are about 5 feet tall and have a guard that wraps around the lower 18" or so. I have almost all wildlife imaginable for central PA. Heck I almost hit a fisher pulling out of the driveway this morning which was pretty wild...

ok, I've seen anywhere from 2 to 8 feet. Must depend on the type of switchgrass.

I know I'm being very picky about this, all because it's in view from the house. I want to put a screen around my food plot but I want to keep it trimmed to around 4-5 ft. This will keep my yard/kids/dog out of view from the plots but will allow us to see/view the tops of the deer from our...

Pennsylvania. Shale ground.

Also to note, I have to research and learn this but I would like to spray the plots to keep grass/weeds down. Does that change anything with combining the clover/alfalfa/chicory?

Good question. This is why I posted the thread. I've only ever planted straight up clover. I didn't know what could be combined. Everybody else agree with this? Instead of splitting the clover and alfalfa combine it in same plot and add chicory if I want?