What Are You Planting This Spring?

[TreeDaddy]

Ran crawler for 5-6 hours yesterday clearing out around a pear tree and small pie cherry grove also cleared a lot of other stuff in the area a fair amount of trivet that I wish was gone that stuff is almost a nuisance. Then planted acorns for an hour or so and scoured the ground for morels no luck on the mushrooms but I did find a nice mature pin oak I’ll release the canopy on possibly next weekend. Broadcast 5 lbs of Buckwheat, 5 lbs of Chicory and about 2 lbs of Ladino clover between my new deer orchard tree rows will need to pick up some other seed for that area latter in the year probably September timeframe. I’ll probably disc up everything and plant winter oats or winter wheat with maybe some red clover as a cover crop.

where is your property?

bill

 

[b116757]

Southeast Kansas

 

[b116757]

About a 130 trees in this planting

 

[Forage]

Busy year.
800 norway
400 redbud
300 loblolly pitch
600 white pine.
All by hand, Hibar spade

 

[Forage]

Busy year.
800 norway
400 redbud
300 loblolly pitch
600 white pine.
All by hand, Bushpro Hiballer

 

[b116757]

My state nursery order finally showed up Friday so Saturday we planted 25 Chinkapin oaks tubed and weed matted them and planted 100 walnuts. Today we planted 200 more walnuts and I ran crawler for about 3 hours clearing a road to a new food plot so I can get equipment to it to work the ground and making the food plot area bigger. Probably won’t plant that one until late August or September. Still a fair amount of smaller trees to deal with I’m pretty sure I can plow most of them under. I’ll be cutting plenty of them from the plow frame when it gets jammed up with them. It’s been about ten years since I did anything with this area so it was getting pretty grown up with young trees under brush and multi-floral rose.

 

[PatinPA]

Planted 25 wild plums from Missouri DC. Also got everything caged that needed caged yet. Wasn't real sure about how to plant them. I want them to border my food plot and screen off the neighbor's property so I planted them in clumps of 5, with the clumps spread out about 20 ft.

 

[Apple Junkie]

For me, I am spotting in apple trees. From Cummins, I got a King David, Chestnut crab, Kerr, Galarina, and Frostbite. From Schlabach’s, I got a Swaar, Snowsweet, and Keepsake. Below is the Chestnut crab going in.

 

[Tree Spud]

We planted 330 blue spruce & black spruce on Saturday. Got 25 apple trees in the ground on Sunday. Advil is now on auto-refill mode.

 

[TenPoint]

Did 115 or so White/Norway Spruce two weeks ago along w/ 10 crabs. Did 8 crabs last weekend. Might still order a couple oaks and a Chinese chestnut just to try.

 

[Derek Reese 29]

Hey Chainsaw - I'll chime in that long handled bolt cutters save on the back when cutting up a roll of welded wire for cages.

My planting this Spring is going to be the least I've done in many years. This morning I will be picking up six maple for scarlet and orange fall colors, at the wife's request, and replacing trees in cages that didn't make it. Most of my time lately has been spend maintaining what we've put in over the past six years as well as dropping as many of our ash that I can, if they are anywhere near a trail. Poison ivy seems to love dead ash, and I don't want to deal with them falling across trails, covered in vines. Chances are that by next year they are going to fell unpredictably anyway, given that they're a year past defoliation now.

I'm hoping to see some flowers on our Franklin this year, I believe they're fifth leaf on B118. We will see.

I used a metal blade on a recip saw for cutting 2 rolls of 6x6 remesh for the same purpose....

 

[PatinPA]

I used a metal blade on a recip saw for cutting 2 rolls of 6x6 remesh for the same purpose....

Angle grinder for me. Tried to use regular old tin snips but gave up quickly. Angle grinder worked pretty good. Boy did I ever get bit pretty good kicking the roll back into place to roll it out again. Thought to myself, "don't kick that roll while it's still swinging back and forth" and of course I did it anyway.

 

[Derek Reese 29]

Angle grinder for me. Tried to use regular old tin snips but gave up quickly. Angle grinder worked pretty good. Boy did I ever get bit pretty good kicking the roll back into place to roll it out again. Thought to myself, "don't kick that roll while it's still swinging back and forth" and of course I did it anyway.

You gotta be pretty spry to get out of the way of both ends when you kick it back to start another cut and when you cut that last piece and it springs back towards the already cut end...i have a few wrecked pairs of jeans already that got in the way of both of those....

 

[Tree Spud]

You gotta be pretty spry to get out of the way of both ends when you kick it back to start another cut and when you cut that last piece and it springs back towards the already cut end...i have a few wrecked pairs of jeans already that got in the way of both of those....

That's why I lay a cinder block on the loose end and stand over the end I am cutting. Those cut ends and spring force are extremely dangerous.

 

[PatinPA]

That's why I lay a cinder block on the loose end and stand over the end I am cutting. Those cut ends and spring force are extremely dangerous.

Ya I did that too. It got me after I was done cutting a piece off and decided to kick the roll back down to start rolling it out again. It rolled over once and the cut end was springing back and forth. Pure stupidity.

 

[Derek Reese 29]

Ya I did that too. It got me after I was done cutting a piece off and decided to kick the roll back down to start rolling it out again. It rolled over once and the cut end was springing back and forth. Pure stupidity.

I guess we all eventually figure out the cinder block and grab ahold route...exactly what I did too

 

[PatinPA]

Lesson learned for sure and the closer you get to the center the springier it gets.

 

[TenPoint]

I put a t-post in the ground on the open end and stand on the cutting end. I did scratch the shit out of my truck one time when I let it go. Stupid. At least it was 10+ years old.

 

[TenPoint]

Added an order from Cold Stream tonight. Just a handful. 1 each of:

Swamp White Oak
Bur Oak
Chinese Chestnut
American Plum
Hardy Apricot

 

[Mortenson]

I put a t-post in the ground on the open end and stand on the cutting end. I did scratch the shit out of my truck one time when I let it go. Stupid. At least it was 10+ years old.

I scratched the side of my '16 F150 last year. Precut a few cages at my shop and then moved them to the hunting farm. Figured tarp straps would keep them from moving but figured wrong. Now I'd use only ratchet straps.