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Post by Bwoods11 on Mar 17, 2022 14:14:31 GMT -6
I picked a bad year to have to plant trees out of state. 100+ trees will cost me dearly for gas, motel, tubes, weed mat, mulch, and cement wire...F N Biden/Harris!
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Post by badgerfowl on Mar 17, 2022 14:20:57 GMT -6
I picked a bad year to have to plant trees out of state. 100+ trees will cost me dearly for gas, motel, tubes, weed mat, mulch, and cement wire...F N Biden/Harris! What are you planting?
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Post by Bwoods11 on Mar 17, 2022 16:12:32 GMT -6
About 20 each of … spruce, pine, oak, crabapple, plum. In Iowa . Screen/windbreak.
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Post by Bwoods11 on Apr 25, 2022 7:57:08 GMT -6
The price was higher @ Menards … compared to Runnings.
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Post by batman on Apr 25, 2022 8:06:08 GMT -6
Runnings been running 20% higher than fleet farm here. Bag of corn was $7.99 last year - up to $13.99 now.
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Post by biglakebass on Apr 25, 2022 15:57:29 GMT -6
Just bought a 100 ft 5ft tall 14 gauge welded wire. 150 freakin dollars. Last year it was under 100
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Post by badgerfowl on Apr 25, 2022 16:28:37 GMT -6
Just bought a 100 ft 5ft tall 14 gauge welded wire. 150 freakin dollars. Last year it was under 100 I refuse to pay that. I've been scrounging up any cage I can find at our place to use on newly planted apple trees. If I keep planting trees, which I will, and which will need protection I've got a bunch of old fencing in the river bottoms I can bring to the hills before I pay that ridiculous amount. FJB.
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Post by Sandbur on Apr 25, 2022 16:43:20 GMT -6
Just bought a 100 ft 5ft tall 14 gauge welded wire. 150 freakin dollars. Last year it was under 100 I refuse to pay that. I've been scrounging up any cage I can find at our place to use on newly planted apple trees. If I keep planting trees, which I will, and which will need protection I've got a bunch of old fencing in the river bottoms I can bring to the hills before I pay that ridiculous amount. FJB. I have done the same. I pulled fence off of some older trees For new plantings and made smaller cages for the older trees from woven wire. I also decided to plant less trees after carrying so much water last year during the drought.
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Post by biglakebass on Apr 25, 2022 17:43:01 GMT -6
I have skimped on fencing trees in the past(using random stuff laying around) and it just doesnt work out in the end in too many cases.
I want 5 ft minimum welded wire, its durable, each piece cut 16+ ft long to give a good diameter. Oh well, it sucks to pay it, but doing it right from the start is worth it to me.
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Post by smsmith on Apr 25, 2022 17:49:41 GMT -6
At some point in the relative near future I'm going to have some re-mesh cages to sell. I'd think they would go fast on FB marketplace
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Post by biglakebass on Apr 25, 2022 18:03:42 GMT -6
Post here first.
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Post by badgerfowl on Apr 25, 2022 18:04:56 GMT -6
I’m going to move some of the little 4a spruce plugs I planted last year this weekend. Most didn’t make it. Planted 70 I think. Didn’t think deer would bother Norway spruce. May have been rabbits too. Either way I’m changing strategy for next year on my permanent screen. Going to buy 10-15 3-4 footers and protect them like an apple tree. Do that 2-3 years and I’ll have a screen in 10-15 years. In the meantime I’m going to plant a 12’ wide (3 passes with the tiller) annual screen. For this year that will be a mix of Japanese millet, dwarf grain sorghum and EW. Just have to move whatever little spruces made it out of the way of that.
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Post by smsmith on Apr 25, 2022 18:09:47 GMT -6
That's a good idea to use re-mesh cages on evergreens. Maybe I'll use what I don't need for apples on evergreens instead.
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Post by badgerfowl on Apr 25, 2022 18:15:48 GMT -6
That's a good idea to use re-mesh cages on evergreens. Maybe I'll use what I don't need for apples on evergreens instead. At our hill place the previous owners planted a bunch of evergreens. I think they caged them all to start. The spruce are left alone but white/red pine take a beating from the deer in the winter. It’s a lot different than our river bottom place where pretty much everything leaves in the winter. I never protected a single evergreen. A few spruce have died from deer or porcupine. But white pines have been left alone.
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Post by badgerfowl on Apr 25, 2022 18:21:09 GMT -6
Here’s my river bottom white pines planted 2013 as plugs. Itasca. Looks like I’m losing one. I fertilized these the first 5 years or so. Probably 10-12’ tall.
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