Blue Hill Nursery Sale
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bigboreblr
5 year old buck +
Bszweda,
That is not alot of screen. I cut a little over 2ft wide section, so the tree can have protection when it's 8 inches in diameter. I don't have the vole issues horrible. My placei s littered with rabbits. When I prune, I leaves the sticks on the ground. Even when doing major surgery on old neglected trees. Everything on the ground gets nibbled down to bare lumber.
I prep my holes months ahead of time. Let's the lime an fertilizer set in without buning stuff. Get the air pockets settled down, and gives the soil a chance to settle some, just dig a small hole big enough for the roots planting day.
I've been using this monster to get some peat moss, old potting soil, and wood chips in a 6x6 by 2 foot deep spot. Letting the trees do some good catchup for me not planting them sooner.....
Saw cummins ursery has a grab bag of apple trees for sale 10 cider or backyard plot for $150. They have tons on g890, m7, and m111 trees left. They pick a mix of dwarf and semi trees. Be a good roll of the dice if I had room.
Bszweda
5 year old buck +
I just followed Blue hills instructions to use 7 foot 8 inch wire per tree . Though I agree I'll need to upgrade next year or two when they out grow it. ill see how many survive a year, before I get bigger cages. I watch a YouTube video and they said I should cut 25 foot to give me and 8 foot diameter cage. Window screen ill also need to make bigger. I just kinda winged it and only had one roll and didn't want to go back to the store.
cavey
5 year old buck +
Its no big deal, just change out and add a larger window screen in time ... same with the wire -- unless you dont care about lower branches the tree will quickly out grow that; but they are right that is not going to be enough window screen in diameter.. no matter what you do dont forget to go back and check the screen at the base of the tree .Every once in awhile I get a screen that ended up a bit deeper into the soil around the base and the tree will send out some higher roots and lock up through the mesh, its a huge pain to get the screen off the tree after that root growth. It happens enough that I thought I should share. I just go back and lift up and set back down, put a bit of dirt around and move on... but every year I find a few that have grown into the screen .
The main thing is you did protect the tree and have most everything covered its just a matter of scale - I never get to it but you could paint the south side of the lower trunk white for frost popping protection. Ohhh the economics of cages,.... post and wire are so expensive now - it sucks If you do go back to add larger dia wire - just double up your old cages.
The main thing is you did protect the tree and have most everything covered its just a matter of scale - I never get to it but you could paint the south side of the lower trunk white for frost popping protection. Ohhh the economics of cages,.... post and wire are so expensive now - it sucks If you do go back to add larger dia wire - just double up your old cages.
Tree Spud
5 year old buck +
The only concern with welded 4' wire cages is that deer will push them in and damage the central leader. I have had that happen many times. Once you start getting fruit it becomes a bigger issue. I will start with welded wire, but in year 2 or 3 move them to 5' remesh concrete wire.
Just when I thought I was out, they sucked me back in! A few persimmons came in stock last night when I happened to be at my PC. I ordered 6 more, since I missed out in the fall. They'll be here in time to plant during my spring gobbler trip, so I couldn't resist. Shipping was only $20 for the 1'-2' trees too.
Yup three more persimmons for me and four smaller crab apples
Teeder
5 year old buck +
Same here:
7 full draw
4 deer Luscious
Plus I got a "shipped" notice for 10 American persimmon that I ordered somewhere else that I forgot about.
Wind Gypsy
5 year old buck +
What would you guys say is the ideal augur size for potted conifers, bare root oaks, and bare root fruit trees?
Tree Spud
5 year old buck +
I use a 9" on the conifers & oaks and a 12" on the fruit trees. Note that roots on conifers and oaks will be vertical and fruit trees will be horizontal. Ideal would be 12" as it will handle all.
Bszweda
5 year old buck +
Went to the farm today and checked my trees. This was the best one out of ten. The kerr crab apples did great. All 5 look like they made it . The 5 crazy ed crabs I'll be lucky if any will survive. Three dead for sure ( don't.get why they did so bad) bonus for the day my pond has two permissions trees loaded with fruit. ( Never realized I had them out of the 4 years of owning the property.They almost look like they will fall into as they are leaning heavily towards the pond. I'm guessing that protected them from being browsed. My maple trees have exploded I swear some grew 15 to 20 feet this year.
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Checked up on my first deer orchard planted in 2022. All Bluehill.
Road kill crab looking good. Didn’t check on it so never picked the crabs off. But still looking good. Also the winter crabs were loaded and let them fruit.
First three pics are road kill. Last four are two different winter crabs
Road kill crab looking good. Didn’t check on it so never picked the crabs off. But still looking good. Also the winter crabs were loaded and let them fruit.
First three pics are road kill. Last four are two different winter crabs
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Gravel Road
5 year old buck +
Wow, those are doing great! Only one of mine from 2021 had fruit for the first time (Road Kill). None of the 2022's had fruit yet either. I'm thinking next year should have quite a few first timers. I pruned mine probably harder than I should have, so maybe that's the difference.
Bill
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You must have wet summers. I'm glad mine are alive. :)
You know I could have wanted more rain but it wasn’t terrible. This fall in NY seems super dry and no rain in 10 day forecast. Just got five pears coming from Bolu Nursery today. Guess I’ll be watering those well for a month. But I got so much more to do with getting ladder stands up and getting ready for the best time of the year
Teeder
5 year old buck +
They look great! None of my 2022 trees have produced yet. Where are you located?
Chenango Co NY. ZONE 5a/5b
I have around 40 Bluehill apples/crabs planted in this section.
Majority didn’t fruit and less had a couple apple crabs on them. These were just the standouts. If I knew they fruited this heavy this early I would have thinned them but i got so much going on it’s tough.
I have about thirty persimmons as well in this field. They are finally getting bigger. Slow growers for me. Pears are doing well but no fruit this year, I did see the blossoming but glad they didn’t fruit
Derek Reese 29
5 year old buck +
This is my roadkill planted spring 2023. Has about 150 crabs on it annd is about 7.5’ tall.. excited about this one moving forward!
