Apple as browse?

[Catscratch]

I've spread a lot of hedge by giving a couple of buckets of them to kids with baseball bats. The rest takes care of itself. In a year there'll be hedge saplings all over the place! The other way I've been successful with hedge is kids and a shotgun. Once again they get spread rather well.

 

[bigboreblr]

I'd go both routes. Try to direct seed them, and maybe put some in a nursery spot. Like 50 apples seed to a pot, then trnasplant after year 1.

Check out your states encon site. Almost every state has a list of deer prefered browse. Seemd NY states wedpage for it is gone now. Towards the end of this article is cornell's list. At home grape and wild roses are browsed alot. About ero percent luck with any poplar tree without caging. thought ninbark was good too.

https://chemung.cce.cornell.edu/resources/plants-resistant-to-deer-damage

I transplant striped maple, but probably won't like the full sun. cranberry highbush is one shrub the deer like at my home.

heres what nysdec sells. Might give you a few ideas. white cedars planted in a brushpile might get a chance. Perhaps growing a few prefered shrubs / trees, transplant them after a year or two from a nursery spot, then surround it in a pile of cut brush.

https://dec.ny.gov/sites/default/files/2023-12/treenurserybrochure.pdf

 

[Catscratch]

I've thrown whole apples into a bucket of moist sawdust and left them on my enclosed back porch for the winter. In spring I dug through the apple mush and found most of the seeds had radicles starting.

I have gained access as much left over mush from cider making as I want. From your experience do you think I could just set the buckets of pomace out for the winter and be ok seed viability in the spring?

 

[homerj]

I'd guess that unless it all stays frozen solid all winter, it'd start to ferment and likely cook the seeds

 

[Teeder]

I'd guess that unless it all stays frozen solid all winter, it'd start to ferment and likely cook the seeds

That's my guess, too.

 

[Teeder]

I have gained access as much left over mush from cider making as I want. From your experience do you think I could just set the buckets of pomace out for the winter and be ok seed viability in the spring?

How much are you looking to get? Can it fit in a chest freezer?

How about spreading out in a area that you can protect from mice?

 

[Catscratch]

I'll probably get 2-3 (5 gallon) buckets. My options are to either leave the buckets in the uninsulated shop, outside, or in the basement until spring. Oher option is to go ahead and disc it in for the winter.

 

[Skeeter]

I'd disc it in now and let nature do its thing.

 

[homerj]

I'd disc it in now and let nature do its thing.

Same

 

[Catscratch]

It has begun. I'm almost 100% certain coons or something will dig it up and eat it, but worth a shot. I did a flower bed too. Hopefully no critters dig it up.

 

[bigboreblr]

Just a thought here. Maybe buy 2 or 3 bird crabapples to keep the circle going.

I drive past a roadide where it seems apple trees likely came from birds. Looking to do that up at camp with this years grafting. 2 or 3 adirondack crabs and maybe let a few siberian seedling grow up and see what they do.

 

[Electrodigical]

I'm just picturing mushy apple trees sprouting. :D

 

[Catscratch]

I'm just picturing mushy apple trees sprouting. :D

Ill tell ya that the mush had a pretty strong odor. I was sure glad to move it away from where the wife parks her car.

 

[KY wild]

Cool experiment, I look forward to the results.

 

[Bowsnbucks]

If critters don't dig 'em all up and eat those squeezings, I'll bet you get a good number of new apple & crab trees. Anxious to see what you get, Cat!