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Nearly all apples need a pollinator. Ryan can elaborate more on that.

Yes, Turning Point is one that he sells, but I just looked and he is currently out of them.

You guys up there have to put up with some horrible things politically. I feel for you. Speaking of owls, check out this hawk.

You can go to Blue Hill's website and use Ryan's contact link if you ever need to get in touch with him. He is devoted to finding and selling top notch trees for deer and other wildlife. I have several of his varieties planted, but they are still very young, however, they are growing very...

Can't remember if I have told this story before on here or not, but: A few years ago a friend of mine decided to start turkey hunting. He had been a deer hunter all his life but never hunted turkey. He went out and got propped up with a big tree to his back, and started calling. In a few...

Somebody thought so,

Thanks for that information, Lynn. Every time I walk through my tree planting, I think of Dave. I have three trees there with scion wood he sent to me, and also a Turning Point from Blue Hill. In case everyone doesn't know it, Dave had 600 acres of wild apple trees. Ryan from Blue Hill was...

It looks like one. You can do two different pears, and if they flower at the same time, they should pollinate each other. Good luck.

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Thanks for waking me up George, and good to hear from you. No tornados, but some strong winds. I've cut up some big trees in the fields and will push them into the fence rows in a few days. I've started doing my NWSG mowing and have also been transplanting some shrubs and doing some other...

I'm going to continue this thread into 2024, because I will likely have some new varieties this year that were not covered last year. Today I took note of this Virginia (Hewe's) Crab that is in full bloom. This variety is said to be Thomas Jefferson's favorite cider apple. This tree started...

I have some Durana plots too and have been able to easily control grasses with clethodim. Here is a pic taken Saturday of where I recently killed grasses in a clover plot.

That's impressive Ben. Good job. Does it have to compete much with grasses at that location?

Here is another one grafted 2 years ago that is flowering. This one is Olympic Giant.

This is a Callery Pear that I topworked two years ago. It is back to the same size it was before I cut the top out. As you can see, it has a few flowers this year. PS - the scions were from an old time pear that was going to be destroyed. A friend of mine called my attention to it and we saved...