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  1. C

    Protecting Fruit Trees from Yellow Bellied Sap Sucker

    Any suggestions for this? The trees are wrapped already, it doesn’t seem to be helping.
    • CatInTheHenHouse
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    • bird damage fruit trees orchard trees yellow bellied sap sucker
    • Replies: 3
    • Forum: Gardening
  2. C

    Recommendations for Fruit Tree Frost Cloth

    Easter being early this year, and the weather being somewhat erratic, I was going to get some frost cloth as a gift for a relative who has fruit trees. Are there any gotchas or caveats I should be aware of? If such exists I’m looking for a cloth that’s easy for one person to put on the trees as...
    • CatInTheHenHouse
    • Thread
    • bad weather preparations frost frost cloth fruit trees orchard spring gardening
    • Replies: 3
    • Forum: Gardening
  3. chickenchicklady

    Free range in the orchard?

    My husband and I would like to allow our chickens to free range in our pranced. Our question is this: will they eat the leaves on our bushes and trees? We already know they will eat the fruit/berries.
  4. centrarchid

    Trap Crop to Promote Quality Foraging Area

    I have been trying to make free-range keeping of birds around my yard, plus keep them from going after plantings in immediate vicinity of the house. The mowed yard is roughly 3 acres and I currently have 7 juvenile chickens, two hens and a rooster plus a small number of chicks. The birds roost...
  5. oregonkat

    Anyone else have a serious reduction in orchard fruit this year?

    My orchard is young, this is year 6. I have almost no fruit on my trees this year. Last year my pears and my apples were heavy, well not heavy, heavy but with enough fruit to need thinning. This year I have probably a third of that? I am afraid that our bee/pollinator populations must be...
  6. GrandmaLorna

    An old "newbie"

    Hi, I'm not exactly new to BYC. I belonged several years ago, but I don't remember what my user name was. I have had many life changes since, and am now going to raise chickens again. Previously, I had raised them for years in a hobby farm setting. Now, I am in a development where they will be...
  7. RunOver

    Guys and chicks

    Hey there, I just registered to this forum and I will introduce me shortly now. Together with a friend I run a garden with vegetables, herbs, fruits and some ornamental plants. Previous year we got another patch on which a fruit cage was build. So it is a kind of a little orchard surrounded...
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