25 Dunstan Chestnut Trees arrived courtesy of Dad. Lot of mowing the field had to be caught up on and 25 holes needed to be dug. Luckily a gas powered post hole digger was also sent…. definitely has become the most terrifying tool in my possession. Basically like trying to hold onto a mini tornado. If not careful, it will throw you over the top of it and laugh at you. Ten trees were planted flanking the driveway entering the propery and then the rest followed the treeline through the back of the field. They are about 30ft apart to allow good sun when they get bigger.
Wrapped for transport to prevent wind burn.
Notice the nicely graded road….
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After all the trees were planted I sprayed them all with a product called Plantskydd to keep the animals from munching on them. It is all organic… basically cow and porcupine blood according to the ingredients. It is supposed to give the impression of a rotting animal and deer dont like to eat that. I’ll be interested to see how well it works.
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In addition, I’ll be wrapping all the trunks in tree tubes. It should offer additional protection from the animals, particularly the mice, voles, moles, woodchucks, beavers, porcupines, rabbits. Trunk tubes are not added yet, but will be in the coming days and I’ll add pictures.
A quick addition…
All the trees now are fully wrapped in trunk tubes and nice and safe. The hard plastic trunk tubes are much like corregated drain pipe and cut very easily with heavy duty sheers from Harbor Freight. Also easy to cut a little hole in the side to make room for a branch here and there. Unfortunately the last time it rained here was when it snowed a month ago. But rain should be here soon? Until then, I ‘m doing a bucket brigade to and from the stream to water the trees. Its alot of carrying buckets!!!