Lou Decruss wrote:
> On Fri, 13 Jun 2008 08:04:16 -0700 (PDT), Sheldon >
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> >Yesterday the weather was finally cool enough to work outside, was
> >still a little warm (low 80s) but I magaged to plant those two plum
> >trees... after teh job is done it doesn't look like a lot of hard work
> >but digging those holes by hand is no simple matter... of course I
> >also need to keep them deer proof for a few years while they grow...
> >my fencing system works well.
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> >One is a green gage (my favorite), the other a Mt. Royal... both are
> >self pollenating but for a better crop it's best to plant a different
> >plum.
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> >http://i27.tinypic.com/s5e8so.jpg
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> >http://i31.tinypic.com/16gk3f9.jpg
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> >Now I need to find the energy to plant the two apple trees.
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> Nice yard Shemp. �Trees aren't for those who need instant
> gratification. �I planted 5 of them 6 years ago. �This year they're
> looking beautiful. �The ornamental pear is close to 25' tall. �The
> cherry is about 12' and I might actually get something off it if I can
> beat the birds. �I'll bet those cages are a pita to mow around.
Actually I designed them that way to make them easy to mow... if you
notice there's a one foot space at the bottom of the chicken wire,
which also adds a foot of height to keep the deer from nibbling up
above (I never saw any deer attempt to crawl underneath). After
mowing close with a riding mower that space enables me to periodically
slide a push mower underneath, and it's easy to string trim around the
fence posts. Oh, and soon there will be weed block cloth pinned down
in there just past the outside of that fence. I don't bother with
the pretty pine bark nuggets anymore as they just seem to scatter
about and make more work picking them up and putting them back, plus
they're an added expense for nothing as from those distances no one
can see what's under there. Early on I had the chicken wire fence
right to the ground with other trees I had planted, now that is a
horror to mow and weed... I quickly changed those. Naturally it's all
work, everytime something new is added there's more to mow around.
I have a couple of ornamental pear I planted five years ago, those are
about 25 feet tall now too. The ones in blossom... in that row is a
linden, hawthorn, beech, yellowwood, and dawn two redwood. Of course
they're not all possible to see in this picture, that row extends some
twelve hundred feet, and a couple were behind me when I snapped this:
http://i30.tinypic.com/291n6gl.jpg
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