Recent content by wisconsinteacher

Took one side of a big 10 point rack and connected it to a trapping earth anchor. Drove the anchor in the middle of my buddies ATV trail where it was very easy to see and covered up where the cable attached to the shed. He was fired up until he went to pull and it was connected to the ground!!

Great, I'm hoping to do 2 passes with the ATV disc around the plot. 8-10'. One last question. What is the narrowest distance from side to side on your plot? If I do 2 passes around, I will have a narrow spot that will be 15-18 yards wide.

I'll take that as a success!!! How wide is the boarder screening?

I bought more fencing. My plan was to space them all out 15-18' and have a fence for each one. I will have 20 clusters of dogwood and 10 highbush cranberry in an area in the swamp. I really hope they take off. I plan on planting them in early May and babying them as much as possible. The...

Thanks for the info. I don't know if I have enough fencing for each plant to have a 3' diameter cage. I'm guessing putting 2 plants in a 3' cage would be tight and cause over crowding. I'll cage as many as possible and let the others go without cages and see what happens.

What diameter would you make your cages if you were going to keep them around the shrub for 2-3 years.

Thanks. Sounds like I need 4ft high at least.

I ordered some root stock high bush cranberry shrubs. I'm wondering what size cages I need for them? Thanks

On the east side, I would be screening from the road that you can see cars drive down as you are looking from the plot to the road. The other sides would be from the woods (10 year old popular trees). If you stand back in the woods 10-20 yards, you can see into the plot when the leaves are gone.

My plot is 1 acre in size and is shaped like and L. The long leg is 120 yards long and the shorter leg is 90 yards long. The plot is 25 yards wide. I'm thinking about planting the outer edge in switchgrass to create screening around the entire plot. My thoughts are to make the switchgrass...

My plans are to plant some spruce in my swamp for future bedding and along my plots. I also want to plant red osier, grey and silky dogwood in my wetlands. That area is full of canary grass, so I want to use a grass specific spray to see if I can knock it back and let the natural plants get...

Did you have better results with individuals or clumps of 4-5?

After reading posts from the past, guys are putting 100 ROD rooted plants in a smaller area. How small of an area can a guy put in 100 dogwoods? Am I better off dibble barring in 100 single shrubs or do I do groups of 5? I'm also concerned about the canary grass over taking things. I will do...

I ordered my first trees/shrubs yesterday. I got 30 black spruce that I will plant in clusters of 10 on the edge of my swamp to create some diversity and hopefully future bedding. 20 Norway spruce for around my plots for screening. Lastly, I got 50 red osier, 25 grey dogwood and 25 silky. My...

Last year, I added a 1/4 acre plot on my oak ridge and it worked out well. A month ago, I went up and frost seeded some clover and put lime down because I thought I would have good ground contact. This weekend I went up and found out that there was a thicker layer of leaves on the plot than I...