Working at the Farm - Took a few I-Phone Pics

dogdoc said:
No, not on my persimmons. I only remove the tape 2 months after the first leaf appears on my pear and apple seedlings I keep in pots at home. With my persimmon bark grafts I don't remove them until the tree goes dormant. Heck, I've found persimmons that I forgot i grafted the following spring with the tape still holding and no girdling issues at all. So leave the tape on all summer.
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Thanks Todd. That's what I did last year on persimmon and apple topworking - left the tape until the next spring. The July 3 wind storm of last year got the best ones I had, but the ones it didn't get did just fine without removing the tape.

I've got so many topworked trees going this year, I don't want to do the wrong thing. I've found that getting the scions to take is the easy part. The hard part is keeping them from breaking off before they harden up at the graft. Pretty soon I'm going to do some bracing with cane sticks at places where I can. Not sure how I'm going to do that on the tree that has 14 scions.:D
 
I lose several of my persimmon bark grafts every year due to high wind. The first year I probably loss 50%. The following year I used bamboo supports and dropped that number to about 25%.
 
Those little acorns are on Chinkapin Oak I set 12 or 13 years ago. I noticed a lot of oak trees set back then that are loaded with acorns this year.
 
Amazing the diversity of plants you get around a spring. Beautiful picture. Looks like plenty of poison ivy and a very healthy fern.
 
dogdoc said:
Amazing the diversity of plants you get around a spring. Beautiful picture. Looks like plenty of poison ivy and a very healthy fern.
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Yes indeed. This spring comes out of the ground not far above where I took the pic. That area is out in the open and covered with all kinds of good stuff - especially jewelweed.
 

6-10-17 Update

That Jungle I posted the picture of above requires some work in order to shape the destiny of the forest. For instance, you will notice the big yellow poplar to the right of the picture. That's actually a tree that I planted, but notice how it has outgrown the nearby red oaks. I took that tree out today as well as a few more poplars and some volunteer sweetgums.

I hated to cut such a nice tree, but I would rather have the oaks, and there is a chance that it could shade some of them out in time. Each spring (usually about now), I go in and do this type of work. The time has come that doing this work inside is going to end, but I will continue to work some around the edges in the future.

This is a big volunteer sweetgum I had previously left. It served its purpose of making the oaks nearby it grow straight and tall. But now it needed to come out. It could outgrow them and shade them out eventually. So, out it comes.



This is a big poplar at the edge that I took down. Notice a small tree with a white ribbon between it and the white pine. That is a small persimmon at a good place. The poplar goes and the persimmon grows. The hard part of this is cleaning up the mess out of the food plot at this edge.



This illustrates the size of many of my oaks that I planted. That big poplar was standing right beside it.



Some random tree pics from in the NH Jungle.







Some apple pics from the East Side of the Jungle Planting.











JUST SAY NO TO WIMPY ELDERBERRIES




I'm not seeing any good bucks yet, but have a few trail cam pics to share.











That's about it for today. I'm resting from all the sawing. Putting them down is not hard but cleaning up the brush gets to me in the hot sun. Enjoy
 
Native Hunter said:

6-10-17 Update

That Jungle I posted the picture of above requires some work in order to shape the destiny of the forest. For instance, you will notice the big yellow poplar to the right of the picture. That's actually a tree that I planted, but notice how it has outgrown the nearby red oaks. I took that tree out today as well as a few more poplars and some volunteer sweetgums.

I hated to cut such a nice tree, but I would rather have the oaks, and there is a chance that it could shade some of them out in time. Each spring (usually about now), I go in and do this type of work. The time has come that doing this work inside is going to end, but I will continue to work some around the edges in the future.

This is a big volunteer sweetgum I had previously left. It served its purpose of making the oaks nearby it grow straight and tall. But now it needed to come out. It could outgrow them and shade them out eventually. So, out it comes.



This is a big poplar at the edge that I took down. Notice a small tree with a white ribbon between it and the white pine. That is a small persimmon at a good place. The poplar goes and the persimmon grows. The hard part of this is cleaning up the mess out of the food plot at this edge.



This illustrates the size of many of my oaks that I planted. That big poplar was standing right beside it.



Some random tree pics from in the NH Jungle.







Some apple pics from the East Side of the Jungle Planting.











JUST SAY NO TO WIMPY ELDERBERRIES




I'm not seeing any good bucks yet, but have a few trail cam pics to share.











That's about it for today. I'm resting from all the sawing. Putting them down is not hard but cleaning up the brush gets to me in the hot sun. Enjoy
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What are you doing with the elderberries?
 
Mennoniteman said:
Elderberry makes the best pies and jelly if the birds don't get them first. Deer like browsing them too.
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Yep, I couldn't get them established in the tree planting without cages. I tried and they just kept them trimmed back. The first year I caged some, I had one to shoot out a couple of saplings 9 feet tall. I guess the roots were establishing even though the tops were being eaten.

Here is another one that came up wild in a fence row down by my barn. I now have some wild ones coming up at different places. My farm was a cattle farm before I started this about 12 years ago. The cows kept them from coming up wild.

In the pic you will also notice a native red mulberry coming up behind it. All kind of free goodies out there if you just find it and give it an advantage over the competition. That's a big part of my habitat methodology - nature is all about what has the advantage. With many things, that only requires a little effort.

 
Native - you see much deer use on your blueberries? I have been considering getting a few just for giggles, but wasn't sure how the deer reacted to them. I figured I may need to put them in some sort or wire shelter to limit browsing, but I like the idea of the variety.....I just haven't take that step yet.
 
j-bird said:
Native - you see much deer use on your blueberries? I have been considering getting a few just for giggles, but wasn't sure how the deer reacted to them. I figured I may need to put them in some sort or wire shelter to limit browsing, but I like the idea of the variety.....I just haven't take that step yet.
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This is going to sound strange, but I started that blueberry bush with a cage and it has been growing a couple of years. I ran out of caging material the other day when setting some crabapples. I knew the little crab would be eaten, so, I stole the cage from the blueberry.

Since I removed that cage, I haven't seen a deer touch that blueberry bush. I may walk out there someday and it be demolished, but so far not touched.

I have some wild lowbush blueberries that don't seem to be browsed. I can't really tell if deer are eating the berries, because the ground is so hard and covered with leaves at that spot I can't really see tracks.

Heck, if they don't eat the bushes, I will plant some more for myself. I will be watching.

But I also stole a cage from a European Hazelnut, and it got hammered.
 
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