Bluehill 2025

[TenPoint]

2025 trees in the ground today. 2 Sweet Dogs and 2 Smitty’s Seedlings. Impressed with their trees this year.

 

[Mortenson]

Looks nice! Putting on a window screen seminar.

 

[TenPoint]

Looks nice! Putting on a window screen seminar.

If I don’t do it now chances are it doesn’t get done. lol. Then I ran out of cut screen. Oh well.

 

[Mortenson]

If I don’t do it now chances are it doesn’t get done. lol. Then I ran out of cut screen. Oh well.

Yeah those rolls run out pretty quick. Seems I'm always running out on the last ones then piecing together old scraps. The fast growing trees outgrow screen awful fast. I've had some come loose and knock on wood they've never been chewed yet. Still get them fixed up tho.

 

[TenPoint]

Yeah those rolls run out pretty quick. Seems I'm always running out on the last ones then piecing together old scraps. The fast growing trees outgrow screen awful fast. I've had some come loose and knock on wood they've never been chewed yet. Still get them fixed up tho.

I’ve lost a few trees I neglected to get protected before winter….

 

[SwampCat]

It is always interesting to me how areas are so different. I have never screened a tree for voles, mice, rats, or rabbits and never seen evidence of gnawing. (Better knock on wood). Yet I literally cannot recover hardly a basket of fruit combined between all my trees between the coons, possums, and squirrels.

 

[TenPoint]

It is always interesting to me how areas are so different. I have never screened a tree for voles, mice, rats, or rabbits and never seen evidence of gnawing. (Better knock on wood). Yet I literally cannot recover hardly a basket of fruit combined between all my trees between the coons, possums, and squirrels.

If you’re down south and have no winter I can’t imagine mice/voles being a problem. They aren’t a problem during non snow months if you keep the weeds away from the trunks up here. It’s a winter issue.

 

[TenPoint]

And I’ve got issues with coons in our river bottom property. Damn things! They haven’t been a problem in our hills property but my trees there are just starting to produce so we’ll see what happens going forward.

 

[RGrizzzz]

Picked mine up Friday and got them in the ground. The biggest ones were around 8'.

 

[bigboreblr]

Those branches looks amazing for being shipped I assume. maybe there is a benefit to not stuffing the snot out of a shipping box.

Tons of voles here. Window screen or hardware fabric 1/4" mesh around the trees. At home I roundup around the tree 3-4x a year and mow. At camp I use around 2.5-3ft of 1/4' mesh hardware fabric as the cage itself. Saw some vole caves in the food plot, but not as bad at the home plot.

I removed one window screen from my home plot as an experiment. It is a bartlet pear that got fireblight the past 2 summers. it is about 40ft from the food plot and 50ft from the backyard brushline. loose it, no big loss.

 

[Charles Clear]

I bought 3 persimmons and 2 chestnuts this year. I expected small trees and they were, but that was ok. First time I was unimpressed with the root systems on the persimmons from Bluehill. Wish I took some photos. I hope they make it. Their apple and pear trees have been awesome for me. First time I got lucky enough to get persimmons from them, usually sold out.