SD51555
5 year old buck +
Pretty sure I'm not the first to think of this, but the idea came to me this week. I'm getting ready to plant more sentinel dogwood bushes on my place. I really only need one more until I open up some more canopy and get some demolition work done. I've been getting drawn into larger and larger ROD bushes under cage protection. Last year, I did a 50-dogwood cage in a 6x6 square made out of ash logs and wrapped in tenax fence.
This year, I'm planning to make a 6x12 exclusion cage, and fill it with ROD. I'm aiming for around 100 stems right down the center and split between half laying one way, and half laying the other. I want to try planting a white cedar on each end of one of them and dogwood in the middle, and another with a white pine in the middle, and ROD doing away from the center each way.
I'm using 6' tenax fence again, but this time, I'm going to see if I can pull it off with 6' green garden stakes from Menards. They run about $1.50/ea and the fence around 40 cents/foot if I remember correctly. It's gonna be very light weight, but my thought is that none of my critters will push on it, and there is nothing to blow over because nothing can catch wind.
I like the idea, because if it works, I can get two things out of one fence project. Once the trees get big enough to affect the dogwood, the dogwood should have done it's job and seeded the area.
This year, I'm planning to make a 6x12 exclusion cage, and fill it with ROD. I'm aiming for around 100 stems right down the center and split between half laying one way, and half laying the other. I want to try planting a white cedar on each end of one of them and dogwood in the middle, and another with a white pine in the middle, and ROD doing away from the center each way.
I'm using 6' tenax fence again, but this time, I'm going to see if I can pull it off with 6' green garden stakes from Menards. They run about $1.50/ea and the fence around 40 cents/foot if I remember correctly. It's gonna be very light weight, but my thought is that none of my critters will push on it, and there is nothing to blow over because nothing can catch wind.
I like the idea, because if it works, I can get two things out of one fence project. Once the trees get big enough to affect the dogwood, the dogwood should have done it's job and seeded the area.
