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Originally Posted by Buehler445
I live in a desert. Trees are hard to get going. Red cedars are used in windbreaks a lot. Because they're the roughest toughest meanest sons of bitches around. And we still have to baby them and water them and love them.
I've planted a pissassload of cedars. I planted a bunch of lilacs. Planted a shiload of Sandhills plums. Tried to get some peach and pear trees going. At my last house we planted a shamrock linden. That was a hell of a tree.
If you're wanting fruit, plant some Sandhill plums. They are glorious.
As for the cedars, see if you can get some grazon. Cut them off hit them with Grazon. Talk to NRCS and see if you can get some.
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Thanks! When we first bought the place, little cedars were cropping up everywhere. I put a stop to that, but you are sure welcome to come and get some in the wild areas.
I will double check on the kind of plum trees I planted. The one that has been in the ground for two years is doing exceptional.
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Originally Posted by srvy
They smell good but the MDC consider them a noxious weed. I dont plant many but I have killed a lot running centerline roads and highways for clearing. I have gone to war with Black locust, Honey locust, Osage Orange, Hackberry and Hickory.
I miss Southern Missouri in the spring as the dogwoods bloom and the smell of sassafras when cut its strong smell of root beer.
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It was beautiful this spring for sure. We are blessed with a bounty of huge oak trees. When the leaves are off, they are something to amaze.
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Originally Posted by KChiefs1
We have a lot of rock & clay. Digging holes is a bitch.
We've had trouble getting a few to live. In one spot we've planted 3 trees & all have died.
Any suggestions?
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I will take a picture of the pick that I doubled over trying to dig holes for our azaleas. I buy pretty much everything small, as the holes are hard to dig when the majority of the ground is rock.
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Originally Posted by Mr_Tomahawk
Cotton Burr Compost...lots of it.
Depends what you are trying to plant.
When you dig your hole, dig it as wide as you can...at least twice the size of the container/BB size you are putting it. Then back-fill with a mixture of your excavated soil and cotton burr compost. Obviously if you can substitute the excavated soil with a pulverizes soil of sorts, the better.
People around here dig their holes not large enough. And with our clay soil, they essentially are forming a clay pot to put their trees in and end up over-watering and drowning them.
Go wide...get high quality backfill.
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Great advise, but I have never heard of cotton burr compost. The tag on all of the trees I planted said to dig the hole double, and that is extremely difficult
Lewdog, I will take some pictures and post them.