Triple C
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A reminder for all of us!When I cut a tree down, I stand clear as it falls; here's why!
The Brushpile
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When we moved here in 2007, it rained a lot and the rivers were full of fish. It rained so much that my wife complained, "Why did we move here, all it does is rain?" Then in 2010 the drought hit and for seven years trees died and rivers all but dried up... it looks like that has finally come to an end.
Glad to see you have ample moisture and the tree plantings have responded favorably! Your level of persistence through a 6 year drought is an amazing quality! Our soil water behaves similarly to yours (lateral flow over solid rock) and the best advice I can afford is to keep it covered with growing plants and thick mulch underneath (slow down the lateral flow)....sparse tree shade is a bonus...that will get you through the next drought!
Figured you would have fished the river already this spring?
Figured you would have fished the river already this spring?
I picked about four gallons of cherries off the suckering cherry tree. This is a rapid growing tree that spreads and suckers faster than wild plum.
Doctorbrady
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Looking good!
Cutman, it appears that your hunch was correct!Yeah, maybe QDMA is what brought you drought. Now that the evil spirits have been lifted the skies will open.
The suckering cherry is something I stumbled on by chance. I was planting trees at the cyclic rate when my neighbor asked me if I would like a cherry tree. Not one to turn down a free fruit tree I thanked him. About a week later my neighbor uprooted a sucker from his father's farm, so I don't know what variety it is. What I do know is that everything eats the cherries, deer browse the leaves, and it forms a fast thicket.
Jack Terpack
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It looks and sounds like an Evans. Are the cherries sour? Evans do form thickets and are real sour but I love them. they are also one of the better cold climate cherries.
Thanks Jack, I think that could be it! The cherries are sweet enough to be eaten straight off the tree, but they are tart. The cherries make fabulous jam!
What makes me think you are correct is the tree size and the suckering. Evans Cherry grows to about 12 feet, while other cherries grow taller.
Mine grows in full Sun , and it drops it's leaves along with most deciduous trees. However a thicket is good deer cover when leaves are off.
Jack Terpack
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If they are Evans, they make the absolutley best cherry pie I have ever eaten. I miss them. My Grandmother had a very old tree in her yard when I was growing up. The area was mowed often so it never put out any runners. It finally died from internal rot. I think of that tree every time I eat cherry pie.
