sixpack
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Hi all..... Our archery season just closed so I'm back to pick your brains.
due to some timber work I need to screen a field edge and looking for TRULY deer resistant varieties. I tried hybrid willow and poplar cuttings. They took, and then the deer took them. They are now destroyed little sticks in the ground. (I had them caged but obviously not good enough. I found one of the cages a 1/2 mile away on top of the mountain. I had cam pics of it stuck to a young bucks antler and fell off up there.) I tried bare root seedling Norways. They got destroyed. I'm done with the little stuff...
I am looking to buy balled evergreens. About 6 foot. Going to use the skiddy with the auger to plant. Any suggestions on what may survive in a high deer density area? I'd really like a cedar, arborvitae (More columnar) look as opposed to a typical "xmas tree" look. However, if it survives I will try anything. Going to plant them close in staggered rows to create it. Eventually I will try some native shrub species in and around to soften it a little.
Area is about 300 feet long that I need to do. Height only needs to be about 8-10 foot at maturity to completely do the job.
Thanks in advance!
due to some timber work I need to screen a field edge and looking for TRULY deer resistant varieties. I tried hybrid willow and poplar cuttings. They took, and then the deer took them. They are now destroyed little sticks in the ground. (I had them caged but obviously not good enough. I found one of the cages a 1/2 mile away on top of the mountain. I had cam pics of it stuck to a young bucks antler and fell off up there.) I tried bare root seedling Norways. They got destroyed. I'm done with the little stuff...
I am looking to buy balled evergreens. About 6 foot. Going to use the skiddy with the auger to plant. Any suggestions on what may survive in a high deer density area? I'd really like a cedar, arborvitae (More columnar) look as opposed to a typical "xmas tree" look. However, if it survives I will try anything. Going to plant them close in staggered rows to create it. Eventually I will try some native shrub species in and around to soften it a little.
Area is about 300 feet long that I need to do. Height only needs to be about 8-10 foot at maturity to completely do the job.
Thanks in advance!