Thinkin Rut
PMA Member
I would lay your main foundation then come back and fill your losses with a more variety as Sawtooth, English, Pin, Burr or whatever trips your trigger.
Starting a 75 acre tree planting looking for Ideas 2024
Hardwood11
It is going to be a good fall!
Can you cage some of them ? If you buy welded wire and posts, you’d save a bunch. It depends on how many deer you have.
Bassattackr
Well-Known Member
+1.
smithhunter1975
Active Member
Is this project all planted now. I recently finished a 36 acre tree planting project. Getting plenty of good rains, hopefully they continue through the summer!
Hardwood11
It is going to be a good fall!
It’s hard to beat this spring for planting trees !
DMarley83
DMARLEY83
No this one starts after this years crop comes off
DMarley83
DMARLEY83
Spent the day serviceing and dialing in the tree planters.
20k tree show up next week.
Roughly 25 acres this year. Time for a few buddies to make good on their offer to help.
Drilled in a clover base about a month ago.
Thinking I can get the 25 acres done in 4 to 5 days, maybe a week. Depends on breakdowns.
Found a # of things to fix on this planter as I have not used it before and not terribly familiar with it.
Thanks for all the input from all. Wound up sourcing trees from Iowa, Missouri, Michigan, Wisconsin, and even Virginia.
Bought a 10' walk in cooler from a closing restaurant back during covid for 75$. Got it up and going and ready to recieve some seedlings.
Also plan on tubbing 100 trees per acre so roughly 2500 tubes as well.
This is a cp22 Ripperean Buffer Strip with trees.
20k tree show up next week.
Roughly 25 acres this year. Time for a few buddies to make good on their offer to help.
Drilled in a clover base about a month ago.
Thinking I can get the 25 acres done in 4 to 5 days, maybe a week. Depends on breakdowns.
Found a # of things to fix on this planter as I have not used it before and not terribly familiar with it.
Thanks for all the input from all. Wound up sourcing trees from Iowa, Missouri, Michigan, Wisconsin, and even Virginia.
Bought a 10' walk in cooler from a closing restaurant back during covid for 75$. Got it up and going and ready to recieve some seedlings.
Also plan on tubbing 100 trees per acre so roughly 2500 tubes as well.
This is a cp22 Ripperean Buffer Strip with trees.
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letemgrow
PMA Member
The wild plums (in patches) will make a great loafing area for quail/rabbits. Look to have a few of those in areas every 60 acres or so where they can soak up the winter sun also.
Quail spent a lot of time under plum patches after feeding in a telemetry study I did at the Atlanta Conservation area for the MDC.
Quail spent a lot of time under plum patches after feeding in a telemetry study I did at the Atlanta Conservation area for the MDC.
Hardwood11
It is going to be a good fall!
What a fun project ? You planted last year as well, which trees did the best ?
DMarley83
DMARLEY83
That was the plan but no. It took a good bit of time to get the all the fields flagged with the fsa as well as I wanted to have a base planted first prior to any tree planting.
As well as most tree nurseries only release conifer trees in the spring and there is a # in my plan.....
This planting is split up over 3 years. 1 in the fall 1 in the spring over the next 3 years. I pushed the 2024 fall planting into the spring of 25 planting.
Whats your process for "mixing" them