The Adventures of CrazyED the beach sand guy

I think this is a 3rd leaf Black Oxford B.118
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Honeygold
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3rd Leaf Black Oxford B.118 with a half dozen fruit. I can't wait to bite into one of these.
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Black Oxford also has some mild CAR
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3rd leaf Enterprise B.118
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3rd Leaf Frostbite B.118
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I think the frostbite tree has 7 or 8 apples on it.
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Is there much CAR on the kerr?

Please let me know when the kerr crops.
 
Frostbite also has some CAR
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Huge 3rd leaf Wolf River on B.118
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Roxbury Russett clinging to life. Suspected Winter Kill
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2nd Leaf Winecrisp B.118 - also has some CAR
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3rd leaf Northwest Greening on Dolgo or Columbia, this tree has been slow growing.
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Another huge 3rd leaf wolf river on B.118, it has one apple the size of my fist.
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2nd Leaf Northern Spy B.118 growing quite well.
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3rd Leaf Centennial Crab B.118 has a dozen fruit,
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3rd Leaf Galarina MM111
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5th Leaf Goldrush MM.111
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4th leaf liberty mm111
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Wide shot of my main orchard
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Damn deer busted into one of my cages that only had one shower curtain hook on it, browsed on my Flemish Beauty pear a little bit
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Black Cherry trees are loaded
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Burr oak doing well.
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Here's a pic of the pond
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Lots of wild bergamot down there
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Pacoon is still blooming
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Black Cherry hinge cut thicket
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We have acres of common milkweed and hundreds of monarchs and other critters that enjoy them.
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Lousy picture but I was surprised to find native spiderwort in a small segment of remnant prairie / savannah.
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Butterfly Milkweed - we have a lot of these beautiful orange wildflowers on our land
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Hinge cut thicket filled with deer beds
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resprouting on these black cherry is amazing.
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Buck Bed?
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I planted a Galarina on B.118 right in the middle of the above pictured thicket
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Lots of deer beds in this area i counted at least a dozen around this ridge that was hinge cut
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Tons of bottle brush grass
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More hinge cut
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Hinge cutting can create a jungle with the right kind of trees
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Some more native plants / wild flowers

goats rue
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hoary vervain
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another shot of the orchard
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Black Eyed Susan
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lead plant
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beard tongue, we'll pick the seed when the pods turn brown and are very hard
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Destination food plot looks good. 80 acres of corn, this hole field will be tall NWSG in another month.
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Coreopsis
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Purple Prairie Clover
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Is there much CAR on the kerr?

Please let me know when the kerr crops.

Not much CAR. I'll keep you posted, watch this thread :)
 
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