My little piece of dirt.....

[Rally1148]

This is one of my northern red oaks. I only have 10 of them planted.
I need to go in and do some trimming around them. They are all this size, but just needs the competing vegetation removed.


.

All of the reds that I have sprouting naturally start leggy like this. They are one of the oaks that really starts out by reaching for the sky. They grow fast!

 

[huntall]

All of the reds that I have sprouting naturally start leggy like this. They are one of the oaks that really starts out by reaching for the sky. They grow fast!

I didn't know...I knew they are a little leggy but look to be growing fast.
All ten of them look the same

 

[Rally1148]

I didn't know...I knew they are a little leggy but look to be growing fast.
All ten of them look the same

Weed control will definately help, but I think a lot of it is just their form.

 

[huntall]

Weed control will definately help, but I think a lot of it is just their form.

Ok thanks. I am definitely going to get the vegetation under control.

 

[wiscwhip]

My goal was diversity on my place.

. This is a list of the trees I have planted. I'm sure I will forget some.
Chinkipin oak.
Dwarf chinkipin oak
Water oak
Pin oak
Willow oak
Nuttall oak
Shumard oak
Scarlett oak
Swamp chestnut oak
Chestnut oak
White oak
Southern red oak
Northern red oak.
Cherry bark oak.
Live oak
sawtooth oak
7 kinds of hybrid oaks (from native nursury )

Dunstan chestnut

Kifler pear
Orient pear
Barlet pear
Sugar pear
Moonglow pear
Wild deer pear
Transcendent crabapple
Southern crabapple
Calloway crabapple
2 apple trees I can remember
Chikasaw plum
Mahaw

Cypress on the creek
Dogwood
Loblolly pines

^^^One of the only reasons having a "farm" in the south is even remotely appealing to me, the sheer amount of different species that can grow and thrive there compared to the north. The bad part is, the cons(excessive heat for too many months, excessive amounts of all types of creepy crawlers, especially poisonous ones:eek:) far outweigh the positives of a longer growing season and diversity of species that grow there, for me at least. :(

 

[huntall]

^^^One of the only reasons having a "farm" in the south is even remotely appealing to me, the sheer amount of different species that can grow and thrive there compared to the north. The bad part is, the cons(excessive heat for too many months, excessive amounts of all types of creepy crawlers, especially poisonous ones:eek:) far outweigh the positives of a longer growing season and diversity of species that grow there, for me at least. :(

You mean critters like this???lol. I had one just like this one strike at me during bow season. The next day I killed this about 200 yards up the road. Big coperhead! I hate em!!!!
.

 

[sandbur]

Huntall-you must have had open ground with all of the species that you planted. Was it ag ground, hardwood clearcut, or pine forest that was clearcut?

Will the competing vegetation out grow the oak? If not will the vegetation protect the oak from rubbing? I find deer tend to rub any tree that is in limited supply on a piece of property.

I have very few balsam fir survive where I live. I would hate to see a buck pick out your cluster of oaks for rubbing.

 

[huntall]

Huntall-you must have had open ground with all of the species that you planted. Was it ag ground, hardwood clearcut, or pine forest that was clearcut?

Will the competing vegetation out grow the oak? If not will the vegetation protect the oak from rubbing? I find deer tend to rub any tree that is in limited supply on a piece of property.

I have very few balsam fir survive where I live. I would hate to see a buck pick out your cluster of oaks for rubbing.

The last piece of property I bought was 20 acres that joined my other property. A man had it and clear-cut all of it. It was mostly pine with hardwood bottom.

after he had it cut he burned all tops and took a bulldozer and cleaned most of it. He had plans of his married daughter would move back to the country and live near him after he showed her the place he had cleaned up. She done moved to the city and she wasn't going back to the sticks.
I mean he even cleaned up old stumps and everything. I had a clean slate to do whatever.

I have allowed growth on the back half of this property just to alow bedding area for deer. It was so bare I needed bedding cover.
I'm just now going in and cleaning around the back half. I am mainly going to do a lot of that come spring.

 

[huntall]

This is some I released from the competing vegetation earlier this yr.
.

 

[huntall]

Another pic from same tree grouping as above from earlier this yr.
.

 

[huntall]

Sandbur, I think I'm going to leave enough brush around the trees to keep the bucks from rubbing. I will cut the sweet gum and pines, because they will grow faster than my oaks. The back half of my property I will not keep cleaned around with tractor.

 

[huntall]

This is some bad quality pictures, but this is how clean this place was when I bought this place
.

.

.

.

 

[sandbur]

This is some bad quality pictures, but this is how clean this place was when I bought this place
.

.

.

.

I don't blame his daughter for not returning to a place like that. But not everyone likes cover, hardwoods, and conifers.

 

[huntall]

I don't blame his daughter for not returning to a place like that. But not everyone likes cover, hardwoods, and conifers.

That's true he must not of liked thickets. He was a non hunter.. It did make it easy to lay this land out and plant in section and leave open areas open for plot and such , but it was wide open for sure.

 

[huntall]

Great news!!! My sawtooth trees have acorns for the first time this yr.
Even a three yr old has acorns. Just a handful of acorns on some trees and none on others. I really can't believe how they are doing!
.

 

[SD51555]

Congrats! Your yield should start ramping up quickly from here.

 

[huntall]

Another pic
.

 

[huntall]

Congrats! Your yield should start ramping up quickly from here.

That's what I'm hoping for! I got a pile of them from 1yr -3yr
Coming behind these 4yr old bigger trees.

 

[huntall]

Just got back from looking at my sawtooth trees again, and after further inspection I found a good many acorns I missed the first time I looked.
Very excited now!

 

[huntall]

I got some bushhogging to do around these hybrid oaks.
.