SD51555
5 year old buck +
There's a video. See below.SD, what does one day of year planting ditch trees look like. Do you clear brush, what species planting, in woods or fields, how successful? Thanks
I have been doing this for a few years now. So far, the trees live at a very high rate, like 95% or better. It's hard to find one that died. There are some that do, but overall it's wildly successful, and frankly, I think the process is identical to what nurseries do when sending out bare roots. I'm usually done a couple weeks before most guys get their calendar driven deliveries. My brother has been at it a few years longer and he's got the same high success rate.
Mostly, I've been planting open areas, but those are all planted full now, and I've got to make new areas to plant. So when I make my winter openings with the chainsaw, I've been going back into those the following spring and planting them full of spruce. Ditch trees are white spruce, my own property, they're black spruce. That process is much easier now that I drop my brush into piles instead of all over the place.
This year, had I bought what I just moved from my own property or the road ditch, it would have cost me over $2,000. I had about $8 in gas into it.
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Planting 250 spruce trees 2023
Total cost = $0. I moved a bunch of trees on my property, and saved some from the electric company mower.
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