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Post by smsmith on Oct 12, 2017 20:24:55 GMT -6
My orchards are completely covered with tunnels right now....I need to do something. I wanted to get a bunch of paraffinized Rozol and broadcast it in my orchards, but it is a restricted use pesticide and I'd need a license in MN. This appears to be an option that doesn't require a RUP license www.volecontrol.com/foraging_types.html
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Post by smallchunk on Oct 12, 2017 21:41:54 GMT -6
I don't know if mine are moles or voles. They are pushing tunnels that stick above ground. Freaking everywhere.
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Post by nhmountains on Oct 13, 2017 4:11:49 GMT -6
I don't know if mine are moles or voles. They are pushing tunnels that stick above ground. Freaking everywhere. The dirt tunnel mounds you're seeing are most likely moles. The vole tunnels show up right on the surface once there's snow. I'm not sure if moles eat tree roots or not?
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Post by Catscratch on Oct 13, 2017 5:32:05 GMT -6
Lots of moles where I grew up and they didn't hurt roots any. The internet says they eat insects. Pocket gophers make a similar tunnel and they do eat roots. Might not hurt to do some research to see what you have hanging around.
I talked with an airport biologist this summer. It is amazing the effort and knowledge that goes into airport habitat! He claimed to be an "anti-biologist" because his job specializes in keeping animals and birds away from an area. Voles are a big problem for him as they eat just about any kind of vegetation and reproduce quickly... and are a favorite prey for hawks and owls (which sucks to have around runways). He said they have pills that offgas a poison that follows the tunnels and kills all the voles in an area. I jumped all over it and asked where he gets it; "in his lab"... what is it? "can't tell you"... why? "it's baaaad stuff"... can it be made? "yep... and no I'm not tell you". Lol, I tried!
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Post by nhmountains on Oct 13, 2017 20:13:53 GMT -6
This link is for a Quebec nursery but, they list apples they sell that are for zone 2-4. They started their nursery because they were having problems finding trees that would survive the cold. www.hardyfruittrees.ca/catalog/apple-trees
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Post by nhmountains on Mar 11, 2018 17:36:33 GMT -6
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Post by Freeborn on Mar 11, 2018 19:10:33 GMT -6
This link is for a Quebec nursery but, they list apples they sell that are for zone 2-4. They started their nursery because they were having problems finding trees that would survive the cold. www.hardyfruittrees.ca/catalog/apple-treesWill they ship trees to the states?
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Post by nhmountains on Mar 11, 2018 19:36:01 GMT -6
This link is for a Quebec nursery but, they list apples they sell that are for zone 2-4. They started their nursery because they were having problems finding trees that would survive the cold. www.hardyfruittrees.ca/catalog/apple-treesWill they ship trees to the states? I don't think so due to customs requirements. It's a pain importing trees and plants into the US but, for good reason. I was posting the link as a reference for cold hardy tree varieties.
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Post by Sandbur on Mar 11, 2018 20:59:27 GMT -6
This link is for a Quebec nursery but, they list apples they sell that are for zone 2-4. They started their nursery because they were having problems finding trees that would survive the cold. www.hardyfruittrees.ca/catalog/apple-treesWill they ship trees to the states? If you are grafting, some of the Facebook groups might have scion to share. Probably still can’t ship across the border. A few of those varieties look interesting.
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Post by nhmountains on Apr 19, 2018 5:00:15 GMT -6
A couple of good videos on a retired fruit professor from Cornell on general fruit and grafting information. You'll learn lots of tidbits if you watch the entire videos.
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Post by nhmountains on May 30, 2018 13:36:03 GMT -6
This is a Michael Phillips video on orchard ecology. Lots of good info throughout but, it's long. It might answer questions you'd had in the past.
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Post by nhmountains on May 5, 2019 14:29:40 GMT -6
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Post by smsmith on Aug 28, 2019 19:23:51 GMT -6
I don't know if this has been posted here or elsewhere, but I just stumbled on it a bit ago. Kind of crazy how many internet searches I've done for apples/crabs and just now find this site. pomiferous.com/
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Post by buckvelvet on Aug 29, 2019 10:13:06 GMT -6
I don't know if this has been posted here or elsewhere, but I just stumbled on it a bit ago. Kind of crazy how many internet searches I've done for apples/crabs and just now find this site. pomiferous.com/In all my last few years of google searches for different things this never came up, interesting. Great find!
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Post by smsmith on Sept 27, 2019 19:51:56 GMT -6
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