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Originally Posted by lewdog
Have you tried painting the trunk with white paint? We do that here to avoid sunburn but we used to do it in Montana as a deterrent from the deer eating the bark.
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I have never heard that. What kind of paint?
Oh and after the Royals game I went out and removed all the fruit, kind of a difficult thing to do but I have taken your word for and was wondering anyway. The peach trees were loaded and the pear tree had the prettiest little pears you have ever seen.
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Originally Posted by HonestChieffan
We will be building in 2017 and already have eliminated any non native plants from out landscape and plan to go very simple and low maintainence. I have started a "nursery" at the farm and moved successfully so far a number of young oak trees as well as some Ninebark and arrowmatic sumac. Wife has been a collector of DayLillies forever so that will be one concession to non natives.
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You are thinking well into the future with the oak trees, good for you!
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Originally Posted by Iowanian
The 19 that died came from a major nursery in Missouri. They were all 2-3' trees. They shipped late and that week it got really cold. I planted them the night I got them...in a freezing wind and snow. The next week was warm.
I've planted a lot of trees. I have had trees die but never in mass.
The ones I got this year came from a box store and were much larger. Most probably 6'. It was a little later in the spring so they were mostly half price too. I don't count on fruit for 2-3 yEars so I don't care. They all look great this year. All of the trees planted last year lived except those fruit trees.
For years I have mixed in some compost from the cattle lot pile and it's been very successful. I used to mix a 5 gallon bucket of fresh cow shit and water and soup it and dump some on surface after planting, but I burned a few pines doing that.
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Wife thinks I am crazy wanting to get some horse shit from the neighbors.
I had a similar experience ordering from one of the magazine nurseries. When we found out when they were going to ship, we tried to cancel but that is impossible.