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Maple grows quick, hinges well, lots of seeds for wildlife, beautiful fall colors, makes good deer browse.

Tree tubes make a tremendous difference in growth. Use 1/2 PVC 5ft for stakes

No red cedar Add Box elder, great for browse Elm More species of maple

Waterhemp sucks! Have used Dicamba HD, it immediately affects waterhemp.

I use 4ft tube with 5ft .5inch PVC pipe. Once tree grows out of tube slide protector up a foot

Tubing does help with growth tremendously for me as well as control deer browse.

Tubes make a big difference. Did both with and without. Without tree tubes no growth to dead. With tree tubes good growth, by year 3 over 6ft tall

Understanding wanting to go program for income. First thing would be to prepare a 5 and 10 year plan for the entire parcel. Do carve out a parcel(s) for CRP but wildlife habitat and CRP can be different. Start planting trees/shrubs ASAP knowing will take 5 to 10 years to see good results...

Planted mine 4-6ft apart. Will sprout suckers once established.

Ernst has limited tree/shrub seeds. I would like following if were available - Green Ash, American Elm, Red Maple, Red Osier, Cranberry, Staghorn Sumac plus any other that would be good deer browse in Central MN. Difficult to find in quantities for 10 acre broadcast planting. Quantities would...