West Branch
5 year old buck +
I am going to be picking up trees from Itasca Greenhouse on May 9 and planting that weekend. The first goal is to screen off a 1.5 acre field from the road and also screen off the cabin from the road, see image below. It will be 3-4 rows of White and Norway spruce with staggered 10 foot spacing.
I will not be spraying with gly, most of the grass was cut pretty short last year and I would rather have the grass helping to protect the trees for the winter even if it gives them some competition starting out. Also, I would have to make it there these weekend to spray which isn't going to happen.
I will use leftover white spruce along with black spruce and white cedar in other areas for more bedding/thermal related cover and travel corridors. Some of the areas are wetter so the black spruce and white cedar should work well there.
I will be planting them using one of Jim Timber's plug planting tools. I think I will need to do some shoveling for the 77 and multipot sizes but that's the way it goes.
The tree quantities, type and size are:
300 - White Spruce 4a
100 - Norway Spruce 77s (I was procrastinating back in February and they were out of 4a plugs and they were almost out of the 77s as well!)
100 - Black Spruce 4a
50 - White Cedar multipot
I will have some bud cap netting for the white cedar as well. Even with a down deer population if the one deer finds a group of the white cedars they will probably look for the others.
I also have 36 hybrid poplar that I have been growing at home that I will throw into part of the screen to get something going faster. But it looks like I will not be able to get those transplanted until May 24th.
I will not be spraying with gly, most of the grass was cut pretty short last year and I would rather have the grass helping to protect the trees for the winter even if it gives them some competition starting out. Also, I would have to make it there these weekend to spray which isn't going to happen.
I will use leftover white spruce along with black spruce and white cedar in other areas for more bedding/thermal related cover and travel corridors. Some of the areas are wetter so the black spruce and white cedar should work well there.
I will be planting them using one of Jim Timber's plug planting tools. I think I will need to do some shoveling for the 77 and multipot sizes but that's the way it goes.
The tree quantities, type and size are:
300 - White Spruce 4a
100 - Norway Spruce 77s (I was procrastinating back in February and they were out of 4a plugs and they were almost out of the 77s as well!)
100 - Black Spruce 4a
50 - White Cedar multipot
I will have some bud cap netting for the white cedar as well. Even with a down deer population if the one deer finds a group of the white cedars they will probably look for the others.
I also have 36 hybrid poplar that I have been growing at home that I will throw into part of the screen to get something going faster. But it looks like I will not be able to get those transplanted until May 24th.