Bowsnbucks
5 year old buck +
For any of us that have planted evergreens this past spring - or last spring, 2014 - how are they coming along ?? How's your survival and/or growth ?? Pix or descriptions welcome.
How about after firearms season so you aren't bumping the few deer you have to the neighbors?;)I haven't checked on most of mine for quite awhile. Come firearm season, I'll get out and wander around to see how they look.
On the edge of my spruce/pine visual screen in Rusk County WI there is a bunch of wild black locust growing in the road ditch. I would trim them back occasionally if it started reaching towards my pines, but in the short term I was OK with any type of tree that could deflect a poacher's bullet or spotlight and also act as a windbreak for my row of pines and spruce planted along the road. Some of the locust trees were pushing 20' tall and maybe 5" in diameter. Last winter must have been a tough one because it just wiped out the entire row of black locust. There were a few random aspens and oaks mixed in that survived without any problems, but the locust trees were hit hard.I did see some of mine in July when I went in to kill the last of my black locust. I won't really know till spring when I spray them or replant.
Ben.MN/WI - If the locust were along a road - salt damage ??
The 2nd year Norway and white spruce that I planted in a 2 acre cut had a lot of new growth on them in June / July. I put some small circles of 2x4" welded wire around some to keep the deer from nipping them and tied surveyor's tape flagging on them for ease of location. Ferns grew up around them too, so I gave the ferns a shot of gly to keep them back from the spruce. The spruce look best once the ferns frost-kill and lay down. Then they really stand out.
Some of our older Norways along the switchback leading in to camp put on between 1 ft. and 3 ft. of new growth. Varying ages there. They're on the sunny inside of a row of 10" dia. white pines. Road - pines - then double row of Norway spruce that are staggered. Mow-able grass between the spruce rows.