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Apple/Pear Trees

Played in the mud a bit yesterday and got some trees put in.
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Buddy asked me this weekend “if u had to pick one apple variety & one pear variety - what would u pick?”
I can’t just do one but my answer was Arkansas Black apple & kieffer pear. Both hardy & great on disease resistance. Late droppers, etc etc
Few random tree pics from last week.
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Got 10 in the ground today, apple, crabapple, and persimmon!
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Looks fantastic!! What’s the plans for management on them & are you going to be able to check them? Good luck & keep posted !!!
 
Looks fantastic!! What’s the plans for management on them & are you going to be able to check them? Good luck & keep posted !!!
Thanks!


So here is the plan, the blue line is the fruit trees, I'm going to plant clover around them. To the East will be a 2.5 acre food plot. Gonna be a mix of beans and then seed brassica into them this fall. The red line is a giant myscanthus screen I am planting this week to make it easy to get in and out of the elevated blind and also screen the plot from the road. To the west is field crop, and I'm gonna have the guy farming next to mine farm it and leave me an acre or two.
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Thanks!


So here is the plan, the blue line is the fruit trees, I'm going to plant clover around them. To the East will be a 2.5 acre food plot. Gonna be a mix of beans and then seed brassica into them this fall. The red line is a giant myscanthus screen I am planting this week to make it easy to get in and out of the elevated blind and also screen the plot from the road. To the west is field crop, and I'm gonna have the guy farming next to mine farm it and leave me an acre or two.
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Awesome!!!
keep eye on tree tubes. I’ve had wind give me some issues on mine. Thinking I’m going to be doing 2 stakes per tube (of some type for second stake) on mine... after few snags with wind issues spinning tubes. Minor but watch it.
looks awesome and great plan!!

& for anyone.... make sure tree plant line settles “at ground level or slightly mounded above”.... looked at one dude having trouble the other day.... his trees settled below ground level and were drowning from water pooling there. Had him dig up and add more soil so it was slightly mounded or even with ground. Just another quick 2 cents.
 
Those trees are bigger than my 3rd year trees. I did start more fertilizer this year, so hoping to get more growth going. Nice work.
 
Quick vid to help folks out. Lil tour of where I raise some trees ….. what I personally plant. Covered some basics on varieties, tips, challenges, etc.
 
Interested in a possible fall fruit tree planting this fall. Fairly small scale, around 10 trees at this point. I've researched fall tree plantings in the past, and the various benefits that can have. Does anyone do fall fruit tree plantings? A main concern is water accessibility if we have drout conditions all summer with our spring planting. Anyhow, just kicking around ideas.
 
Voles will get trapped and I put some boxes with some goodies in em where only they can get em.

for drought - just water if it’s bad…. Not hard. Can buy a cheap tank. One idea is to buy a 5 gallon bucket for each tree. Drill small hole in bottom. Fill up bucket during drought. Some years u won’t need it.
 
Voles will get trapped and I put some boxes with some goodies in em where only they can get em.

for drought - just water if it’s bad…. Not hard. Can buy a cheap tank. One idea is to buy a 5 gallon bucket for each tree. Drill small hole in bottom. Fill up bucket during drought. Some years u won’t need it.
But they are assasins! ;)

 
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