TimberHawk
A good 3 year old buck
I have 2+ acres of pure reed canary on my place that I've been struggling with. I'm going to keep throwing in some longer cuttings that I've had marginal success with and will continue to plant 100-200 ROD seedlings into it every year, but I'm getting impatient and decided to do ten 20' pockets of landscaping fabric and cuttings in spring '22 to get something growing. I had good success with this on a screen I tried this year so I know it will work, but I fenced the entire screen with snow fence. The deer browsed the hybrid poplar leaves pretty hard where they could reach over the fence. Do I stand any chance at success by leaving all or some of the pockets unfenced? Or would the fencing even do anything? They can easily jump the existing fenced screening, but none did and I assume it's because of the relatively narrow landing zone or possibly they don't like the look of the shiny black fabric. A 20x20' square with a 4' fence around it is an easy jump and landing zone for a deer to get a snack.
I'll be using one hybrid poplar cutting in the center of each pocket and a combination of silky willow from Big Rock Trees (supposedly deer resistance) and ROD and willows that I can harvest on my land.
I'll be using one hybrid poplar cutting in the center of each pocket and a combination of silky willow from Big Rock Trees (supposedly deer resistance) and ROD and willows that I can harvest on my land.