Cages, weed mats and mulch

[BuckSutherland]

Have you noticed bears hammering them?? We just planted about 1 dozen at camp ....... and we have bears. I hope we can grow them up to a size that they can survive bears & feed other critters / birds.

Bears demolish choke cherry in my neck of the woods. So do grouse. Fun as hell to watch them in the deer stand. I have a good grouse and bear population in the area. My land would be excellent grouse hunting. I'm gonna get a bunch of mine cleared out and put on cages, etc. See how it goes. They are all naturally occurring, except a few that my brother planted. Maybe 4 of them survived.

I did find a chokecherry approximately 30 feet tall and its kinda tucked under the canopy of some really nice red oaks. Easily the oldest one I have noticed on my property.

 

[BuckSutherland]

I would like the actual nuts.

I bought a bare root beaked hazelnut and it’s growing. I have started several regular hazelnuts.

the cows don’t seem to want to graze them so I would like to plant more.

Thanks

I looked all over my woods. There wasn't one single beaked hazel nut left anywhere. 1,000s of them disappeared in the last month. The critters have them all cleaned up. Choke cherry was completely gone too.

 

[Angus 1895]

I looked all over my woods. There wasn't one single beaked hazel nut left anywhere. 1,000s of them disappeared in the last month. The critters have them all cleaned up. Choke cherry was completely gone too.

I feel better, I couldn’t find one freaking hazel nut in oregon/Washington ……poof they be gone!

begining to doubt if I knew what a filbert was.