Starting on this whole habitat improvement madness - sometimes I think I enjoy it more than actually hunting now
As with most of us, not starting sooner - had property for a couple years and had pretty good success so thought I was golden, couple bad winters changed that real fast.
Planting standard apple trees and $1 plug cedar trees into sod and you're looking at probably 10 years before you start reaping any benefits - I'm only 4 years in. Apple trees are 6', but probably a few years from any apples and tallest cedar is maybe waist high, but hoping they take off in the next few years. Sticking some new plugs in each year so I can't baby them - just hoping the shotgun method works and some can make it - sure they would be twice as tall if I babied them, but just don't have the time with the 1 hour travel to get there and 3 kids.
Even the plum and other shrubs I've planted seem to be so sloooooooooooow to take off - guess we only have a 100 day growing season up north
Sometimes I think I should have done less trees and taken better care of them, but still optimistic for the future.