Combo Exclusion Cages

[SD51555]

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.

 

[Ben.MN/WI]

That plan should work unless Barry decides he wants to mess things up. I like the idea of adding a white cedar to that fenced mix since the cedars would be browsed to death without protection.

 

[Brian662]

The deer at my place in SW WI caved in a 5' welded wire fence to browse a white cedar. Admittedly the browse in the area is sub optimum and deer density is high.

 

[bigboreblr]

You prepping the soil good on this? I would make this thing easily removable. Probably be ok on it's own in 3 years, then make another spot.

I'd maybe plant something in the north end of it, like an oak or apple. The goal for these dogwood is to prduce seed for a few years.

 

[bwoods11]

I bought 25 of the garden stakes off Amazon for a reasonable price . They have metal interior, much tougher …. I’ll post the picture of em .

 

[SD51555]

You prepping the soil good on this? I would make this thing easily removable. Probably be ok on it's own in 3 years, then make another spot.

I'd maybe plant something in the north end of it, like an oak or apple. The goal for these dogwood is to prduce seed for a few years.

I had an open spot where I’ve been moving across my sanctuary. All the overstory and underbrush is gone. It also has 3/4 day sun. I had to throw some branches, chop some roots, and saw off some cattle humps.

So I got one put In today. I need to make my own driver for those stakes. The one I had was too tight. I got them in anyway, just more fuss than it needed to be.

This one is 6x12. There’s a white cedar on each end, and around 30 ROD in between them.

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[SD51555]

It’s a little light, but after I trim off the extra fence above the stakes, I think it’ll be good.


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