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Post by philagardener on Sept 20, 2016 18:38:20 GMT -5
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Post by reed on Sept 20, 2016 19:17:34 GMT -5
I have a large hackberry off the southeast of the yard. Some if it's babies are currently helping to replace the ash that already died and were cut down just this spring. Twenty years ago I built a house just to the north east of an existing 50' ash. It is one those currently being used as out door cooking wood. Ever since I heard of the borers I have been going out in the woods and getting saplings to supplement the hackberries. I have five oaks of different types, two hard maple, a water maple, six or seven seed planted pecan, a couple pretty red maples that went wild from some hybrids in my brothers yard and two purchased dawn redwoods. I have two more oaks and three more maples tagged in a friends woods to dig this fall. I am also thinking of shelling out big bucks for a couple of the disease resistant American elms. A couple good sized wild black cherry were already there. I dig trees well taller than I am and have only lost one, it's hard work. The guy who I hired to help cut the large ash that were too close to the house to tackle myself advised me that I had too many trees, too close together. I thanked him for his informed opinion. I'm not growing a specimen tree, I'm growing a woods. I keep the whole area mulched and unauthorized digging is strictly prohibited. Lots of bluebell, Solomon seal, trillium and other wild seeds are just scattered as collected. I even water the area as needed, as it is right now and feed each fall with chicken poo. It looks nice even if it will be years before they replace the shade of my ash trees. I admit I'm a little fanatic about this project but it's not subject to negotiation  . |
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