What’s your goal for the yard tree?
You had me at baked grouse and doomsday.Red splendor crabapple on their own rootstock is my choice if you want to have baked grouse for supper and a little shade in the summer. They typically keep their fruit through the winter for the grouse to eat when other food options are limited. The chokecherry trees/shrubs by my house typically drop their fruit earlier in the fall when there are lots of other food options available.
If you wanted to make that red splendor crabapple tree valuable for your doomsday planning, you could let the tree grow for a few years and then graft different apple varieties on a half dozen different branches. You could have fresh fruit from August through November and then some bonus grouse meat when they show up to clean up the red splendor crabapple branches.
I planted red splendor crabapple trees around the edge of my cabin yard to draw in grouse and it works well. I'm not above bagging a grouse on the edge of the yard.You had me at baked grouse and doomsday.
Red splendor crabapple on their own rootstock is my choice if you want to have baked grouse for supper and a little shade in the summer. They typically keep their fruit through the winter for the grouse to eat when other food options are limited. The chokecherry trees/shrubs by my house typically drop their fruit earlier in the fall when there are lots of other food options available.
If you wanted to make that red splendor crabapple tree valuable for your doomsday planning, you could let the tree grow for a few years and then graft different apple varieties on a half dozen different branches. You could have fresh fruit from August through November and then some bonus grouse meat when they show up to clean up the red splendor crabapple branches.
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I am referring to the Viqueens draft history.Huh?
Birds eat our small-sized, yard crab apples too. Robins, cedar waxwings, cardinals, titmice - all good to watch. That's pretty tame-looking habitat compared to your usual pics, Buck. How far away is your wild acreage?We have had snow 2 times in the last week. We have a little ornamental crab tree in the front yard and the neighbor has some other type of crap apple. The robins showed up BIGTIME to clean up on all the little fruits hanging on these two trees. Haven't noticed any shit on my house yet, but my daughter's kitten is sure getting lots of good entertainment from these big fat robins. The last heavy snow knocked a bunch more onto the ground. When it warms up they will be out in force cleaning them up. Probably had 100-125 robins taking turns cleaning them up a few days ago before the heavy snow.
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