Fishbonker
Life Member
I ordered 10 bare root Persimmon trees a week ago last Friday. The brown truck dropped them off late Thursday afternoon. I was down in the shed and didn't hear the truck until it was headed back down the highway. The box, covered in red and white tape that read "FRAGILE", was absolutley smashed. Luckily none of the trees were damaged and the nursery had even sent 11 trees instead of 10.
We got the last one planted that evening just as the thunder started to roll and the wind started to howl. I was going to put cages around each tree that night, but the weather wasn't going to co-operate.
I had to work a three day weekend so I planned to cage them on Monday. So yesterday I went out to the new Persimmon orchard with fencing, stakes, mulch and XM radio.
I guess its true that deer love Persimmon trees, because they ate the tops off two of them. Bastards. The trees survived UPS, a sever thunder storm with high winds heavy rain and pea sized hail only to be chewed by the creatures they will someday help feed. Maybe the deer were just getting their shots in at me before I got my shots in at them.
Now they are all safe in their cages and happy in their mulch, the Persimmons that is, not the deer.
Next up are Paw Paws.
The 'Bonker
We got the last one planted that evening just as the thunder started to roll and the wind started to howl. I was going to put cages around each tree that night, but the weather wasn't going to co-operate.
I had to work a three day weekend so I planned to cage them on Monday. So yesterday I went out to the new Persimmon orchard with fencing, stakes, mulch and XM radio.
I guess its true that deer love Persimmon trees, because they ate the tops off two of them. Bastards. The trees survived UPS, a sever thunder storm with high winds heavy rain and pea sized hail only to be chewed by the creatures they will someday help feed. Maybe the deer were just getting their shots in at me before I got my shots in at them.
Now they are all safe in their cages and happy in their mulch, the Persimmons that is, not the deer.
Next up are Paw Paws.
The 'Bonker