Food and Cover orders for spring 2020

[Bowsnbucks]

I just got an invoice from Flickinger's Nursery here in Pa. for (50) each Norway spruce & balsam fir. I'm also getting more witch hazel and American high bush cranberry> (actually a viburnum) seedlings. I only ordered 1 apple tree for this spring - a Sundance on P-18 from Cummins. I'm saving room in a somewhat stony corner of a big field for planting some of Sandbur's crabs as they grow from seed. This Sundance will fill the last "hole" in our established apple plantings. Welter's seed order includes 4 varieties of clover, Oasis chicory, "Big Buck brassica mix", and 2020 Supreme alfalfa.

The evergreens will be used to create more security/bedding cover in logged areas, and for continued sequential planting in staging cover at the edges of plots and fruit trees.

 

[TreeDaddy]

Winter "cabin fever" is dangerous as i seem to want to empty the inventories of MDC,Wildlife Group,Welters Seed,etc

bill

 

[trampledbyturtles]

Dont think it would be wise to post my current order all at once.

Otherwise my eyes and brain may try to tell my heart the truth.

 

[H20fwler]

So far I have ordered for March 2020 projects;

From Cummins to split between both orchards
2-Sansa B118 grade #2
2-Hewes crab B118 grade #2
2-Shenandoah OH87 grade #1
For grafting projects to plant in nursery box
20-M111 rootstock
10-OH97 rootstock

From Coldstream to plant in shrub strips
25-Indian currant 3’
25-Nannyberry 3’
25-American plum 3’
25–Ninebark 3’

1/2 pound of Fennel seed
1/2 pound Dill seed
To plant in pasture for blue swallowtails

Also going to build a couple bumblebee boxes
And put up a mason bee house and buy some mason bee cocoons.

 

[Mortenson]

I'm planting approximately 20 apples, crabs, and pears. Some of those will come out of my nursery. That was supposed to be it. Until this silly thread got started. Proud owner of 125 wild plums from MDC as of 10:20 pm.

Fruit trees I have ordered are:
2 - Winter Wildlife
3 - All Winter Hangover
2 - Kerr on Dolgo
2 - Malus Pear on OHxF 97
2 - Rifle Deer Pear on OHxF 97
2 - Winter Deer Pear on OHxF 97

 

[SD51555]

I just got an invoice from Flickinger's Nursery here in Pa. for (50) each Norway spruce & balsam fir. I'm also getting more witch hazel and American high bush cranberry> (actually a viburnum) seedlings. I only ordered 1 apple tree for this spring - a Sundance on P-18 from Cummins. I'm saving room in a somewhat stony corner of a big field for planting some of Sandbur's crabs as they grow from seed. This Sundance will fill the last "hole" in our established apple plantings. Welter's seed order includes 4 varieties of clover, Oasis chicory, "Big Buck brassica mix", and 2020 Supreme alfalfa.

The evergreens will be used to create more security/bedding cover in logged areas, and for continued sequential planting in staging cover at the edges of plots and fruit trees.

Better buy some kind of grass, or ma nature will provide it for you.

 

[SD51555]

I would recommend barley for a spring planting.

 

[ksgobbler]

I am putting in 50 more buttonbush in the low areas.

 

[Bowsnbucks]

You're all infected with the "Woo-Hoo" habitat virus!! I just figured I'd scratch open an old winter-time wound to get the fever spreading.
H20 …….……. I think you've got the worst case so far. Mortenson's trying his level best to out-sick you though!

SD51555 - Grass? We also plant grain rye, oats, and winter wheat in late summer. Are you talking NWSG's? We also have some weed fields we keep that way for diversity & pollinators.

Trampledbyturtles and TreeDaddy also have the fever. This habitat stuff is contagious & spreads easily!

Go ahead gentlemen …...…. just TRY to ignore your seed catalogs, online tree & shrub sites, and keep your credit cards tucked safely in your wallets. Just TRY !!!!

 

[ksgobbler]

Honestly I am more intrigued by our garden catalogs. We are making a raspberry raised bed. Looking at tomato and pepper varieties, etc.

 

[scott44]

Not much planting going on here this spring, I have 10 apple trees coming From Turkey creek for a couple small orchard starts 3- Arkansas black 3-Empire and 4- Enterprise all on M111. I'm thinking of trying a couple hundred Real World MG rhyzomes just to compare. I prepped about 4 acres to plant some warm season grasses so I have to order some switch, indian and big blue from Ernst seed. I have most all my seed for my plots maybe just add some sorghum sudan to my sorghum mix plot.

 

[Someday isle]

I’m adding 7 pear trees the last week of February - lots of prep work yet to do. Probably didn’t acknowledge my schedule well enough for trees so I’ll be scrambling that last couple weekends but hopefully it’s worth it a few years from now.

 

[roymunson]

I left the farm yesterday thinking "I don't wanna go home, I wanna stay here"

Spent 2-3 hours with a chainsaw in my hands cutting junk trees and making the sanctuary thick... Man that's fun.

If I could get away with taking a full day off each week to go do habitat things, I would.

I have 16 trees coming. 10 for the farm/habitat, and the rest for my "home orchard"

 

[TreeDaddy]

You're all infected with the "Woo-Hoo" habitat virus!! I just figured I'd scratch open an old winter-time wound to get the fever spreading.
H20 …….……. I think you've got the worst case so far. Mortenson's trying his level best to out-sick you though!

SD51555 - Grass? We also plant grain rye, oats, and winter wheat in late summer. Are you talking NWSG's? We also have some weed fields we keep that way for diversity & pollinators.

Trampledbyturtles and TreeDaddy also have the fever. This habitat stuff is contagious & spreads easily!

Go ahead gentlemen …...…. just TRY to ignore your seed catalogs, online tree & shrub sites, and keep your credit cards tucked safely in your wallets. Just TRY !!!!

Is there a flu shot for this s***?

bill

 

[roymunson]

Is there a flu shot for this s***?

bill

Nope, it's only cure is when you completely spend all of your money, can't borrow any more, and you're destitute... But you have a darn nice stand of MG grass

 

[Bowsnbucks]

TreeDaddy - No shot - but ^^^^ Roymunson understands letting this bug "run it's course" !!

I'm with H20 on the bee boxes. I have the wood and misc. material to build a few. I'm making for multiple bee varieties, mason bees, bumbles, and any of the other solitary bees that most of us don't even recognize. I learned of the "unknowns" from a Penn State bee specialist. There are small solitary bees that have no community hive, but they still pollinate any flower.

 

[trampledbyturtles]

Dang, doesn't seem that long ago I was cutting/melting these things. Only 110 this year, finally getting around to recycling a few from 3 years ago which helps. For anyone just starting out or on a budget, make your own tree mats. Think I spent $10/mat for some cocofiber bs starting out, did work well. But have it below .50$/tree now with the ability to reuse. Heat gun has paid for itself.

Edit: need to add, makes for a fun job in the shitty snow froze part of Feb while dreaming of deer habitat/hunting and shooting back some whiskey.