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I've got a 25 gal. sprayer for my orchard trees mounted on my Grizzly & realized the battery is under the front rack (which I have a basket mounted to) so hooking up to the battery is going to be a pain. Was thinking of just purchasing another small battery & putting that in the basket when I...

I've got what look like small Bumble bees boring into & eating some of my peaches. Anything I can spray on the trees/peaches to deter w/o hurting the bees & making the peaches inedible?

I've got a small orchard here in the mountains of VA & am looking at hitting capacity pretty soon (all the cleared / fenced land I have). I've got room for maybe another 20 or so trees. What are your favorite apples, peaches, pears, plums, nectarines, &/or cherries? I'm mainly interested in some...

Anyone (Native) have an idea what kind of apples these may be? They ripen the last week of Aug here in VA. Closest I can think is Bramley or Baldwin...

I'm on my way to having ~125 fruit trees in my home orchard (only 1/4 are producing due to age) and am planning on getting a cider grinder & press. Anyone know anything about them, good manufacturers, etc?

I'm looking for a 25-50 gal sprayer to mount on the back of my four wheeler (if 25 gal) or FEL if 50 gal. that I can spray my cabin for carpenter bees & orchard fruit trees. It'll need to spray 30' high. Anyone have any experience w/ some good sprayers? Not sure where to look so I figured I try...

I've got a small mountain plot that receives a good bit of shade. Raked it w/ my tractors landscape rake 4 years ago & planted clover + a little rye & oats to compliment. The plot did really well for 3 years but this past year started getting thick w/ moss due to the shade it receives. Without...

When is the correct time to apply lime for my orchard trees (Zone 6B - in the VA mountains)? I've got apples, pears, peaches, plums, nectarines, cherries, & persimmons. I'm thinking most do best when pH is between 6.0 - 7.0 so that's what I normally shoot for. I do yearly soil samples / analyses...

I've got some of the original tags that came on my trees & also logged a diagram of my roughly 100 orchard trees on paper so I know what's what but wanted to see if any of you all use tree ID tags & if so, where do you get them from? I'd like to have decent tags on the trees themselves and...

I started off using 4" black ADS drain pipe around my orchard trees, then went to tree wraps, then to aluminum window screens or wire hardware cloth (1/2" squares) to keep rabbits etc from chewing on my fruit tree trunk bark. I've been painting the trunks w/ white latex paint to help prevent...

Title says it all.. do deer & turkey prefer White Oak acorns or Sawtooth Oak acorns? Maybe I'll do a combination of both :)

What's their favorite acorn? Was thinking of planting some White Oaks & Sawtooth Oaks along w/ some Chestnut trees this Feb/March...

Wasn't sure if this is the right forum to post this in but I've heard deer, bear, & turkey love Chestnuts so I was thinking about planting some. I guess drawbacks would be Amer Chestnuts can get the blight & that Cnuts ripen early so prob. only help during our early archery season. Any online...

Anything I can spray on my younger apple, pear, & cherry trees to keep the deer from eating the leaves? I've seen the Deer/Rabbit sprays that smell like rotten eggs. Just wondering if there was something more commercialized for spraying 4 dozen trees...

Any good food plot Clover that grows relatively low to the ground? Reason I'm asking is my front yard (~1.5 acres) is an orchard & food plot and I have to mow it occasionally. Using a walk-behind mower so I can't cut it very high. I cried doing so yesterday when I was cutting 8-10" clover that's...

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My small orchard (46 trees) is doing well but I'd like to add some Persimmons. Want to keep them on the downhill side for deer & bear but still inside my orchard fence (I think). Will they do OK in partial sun/shade or do they really need full sun? Anyone have experience with Persimmons in less...

I'm not big on chemicals but we had a really bad infestation of Japanese beetles on my Plum & Cherry trees & Aphids on my Apple trees a few weeks ago. I bit the bullet & bought some GardenTech Sevin spray & mixed at 4 oz/gal. like it said. I also sprayed my Pear trees but noticed my Pear tree...

I'd like to try something new for the deer. I'm in the VA mountains w/ crappy soil but would any of these 3 above do OK? If so, when should they be planted in VA (zone 6b) & can I mix them in w/ my clover plots? Main caveat is I can't drill, will have to broadcast but can use a landscape rake...

After a few weeks of 90+ degrees & no rain, my white clover is starting to look a little stressed. There must have been some red clover mixed in here & there b/c I've got onesies & twosies that are growing & seem to be doing better than my White clover. Does Red clover handle droughts & heat...