Recent content by Murdog

I was doing some root sucker pruning and weeding around some fruit trees yesterday and found lots of snail/sucker looking critters on and around the trunk/roots. Do they pose any danger? any info? thanks

I received scions from Burnt Ridge yesterday! Buffalo ny

Thanks guys

I did a bunch of pruning today but was not able to reach the tops of some of my apple trees. Most of my trees are on b118 so I was expecting them to get pretty big but now that they have I’m a little concerned about being too high on the ladder- this old age thing is creeping up on me! So my...

Could someone post some sites where I might order some? Looking for Kerr and golden hornet among others. Thanks

I really would like to try some of these crab apple trees in my "wildlife orchard" but have not been able to find any. Would anyone have one they would be willing to trade/sell some scions from?? I have a bunch of disease resistant cultivars: enterprise, liberty, freedom, wolf river, redfree...

Catscratch - Interesting you mention walnuts. I attempted a small walnut tree plantation about 10 years ago. The projections were closer to 25-30 years. I think I went into detail on the subject on the old site. Sadly it didnt work out for me and I ended up selling the property and moving - long...

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Thanks TK the growing medium is my biggest decision right now. Ive been leaning towards a 50/50 mix topsoil and compost. I might need to go with a bigger bag (7 or 10 gallon) if I want to get trees to 5-6 feet. Havent planned too much on irrigation yet but am thinking just a sprinkler system to...

Looking for some input on a possible retirement 'project.' Im probably going to retire in about 4.5 years and am thinking about growing some trees for profit for some additional income. Heres the rough plan and a couple questions: Im going to start with 500/yr and eventually (yr or 3) get to...

I read on old forum that it was possible to graft pear onto hawthorn. Since I have a boatload of them I thought I would try it this past spring. I had 7 out of 10 bark grafts make it! Kieffer and Ayers pear:)

Ive used the spiral tree wraps on Tamarack to combat rubbing - with success.

I like any of the viburnums - Theyre nice looking shrubs (white flowers in spring , big,bushy n green in summer and good fall color PLUS the deer love to browse them and I think they grow better when browsed - perfect !

Thanks for the feel good story Wayne - I think most of us are hunters because of our Dads. Beauty of a buck too - congrats!

what about growing sometype of vine on the blind???