trees, trees, and more trees

StrmChzr · 01-03-2005, 11:40 PM

i'm beginning to make plans for planting trees on my land this spring. any info would be appreciated.

i'd like to order a 100 2yr old sawtooth gobbler oaks. what nurseries have ya'll purchased sawtooth oaks from?
i'm planning to protect them from the deer by staking a 4' tall X 18" dia. wire "shield" using 4" chicken wire. any other ideas?
also i have an area close to my pond that i'd like someday be able to flood for waterfowl. when is it "safe" to flood sawtooth oaks (i.e. how many years for a tree to establish itself so that it could survive 60 days of standing water)?

also, i'd like to plant 10-12 apple trees in my food plots. i'll probably get the largest size apple trees that wally world sells and protect them from the critters by driving 3 metal fence posts in the ground and wrap chicken wire to create a 4' diameter circle around the trees. aside from gratuitious watering, any other ways i can improve my success rate?

what other trees should i be considering?

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rost495 · 01-04-2005, 07:57 AM

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Great info. I'm curious. Any way you could post a photo up close of a sawtooths leaf? May have them and dont' know it and all I'd have to do is fertilize.

What I have found is an oak leaf kind of like live oak but larger and thinner but with spines on the edges. I"m very poor at identity on trees and plants but learning.

If only there was a good book source of what deer eat in the woods and what to look for. Thats the result of growing up hunting deer feeders and not learning.....

Jeff

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rost495 · 01-04-2005, 06:15 PM

Thanks, I am not 100% sure but that could be what I'm looking at. I also need to find out if the deer prefer the pin oak acorns or something other that I need to look for.

I'll check out the book link. Maybe I can web order it. Not off anti hunting/gun amazon though. I'm about 1.5 hours from any type of book store.

BTW what exactly is a crabapple?? Is there another or different name? Its not a bois d arc by chance?

Thanks again, Jeff