Dixie Chicks

[perchie.girl]

I lost a few apple trees to girdling by tiny rodents.

The other issue we have uo here is the sunlight... A tree with dark bark will often warm up too soon, the sap will start to flow, we will get a hard freeze, and then the sap freezes, pops open the trunk.. If it is bad enough, the tree dies.

is that why they paint orchard tree trunks white?

 

[Beer can]

That could be perchie, I always thought it was bug repellent paint.

 

[CanuckBock]

I had a rodent girdle one of my new nova spy apple trees one winter. I tried cutting re-grafting it back to the root stock, couldn't get a good connection/attachment so close to the ground. Successfully grafted four nice branches to a yucky wild apple tree, they took. Two yrs later that winter those four branches were the only ones the deer ate...grr!

Deer...yeh, dear me!

Veg garden, Orchard...we didn't even consider having either without fencing...at least six feet high.

Not really a great set of pics but I wasn't intending on clicking the wire...

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New Orchard...behind them playing dogs...see the metal extensions on the fence post...

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And the perimeter fence is double wired plus snow fence (cut down on the drying winds for winter) we pounded extra tall posts and Rick drilled holes so high tensile wire run in three strands!


Veg garden...I wrongly accused Rick of slaughtering my chives with the weed eater...it was the mega numbers of deer.

Spade dug the veg plot in prep but we knew we had to fence it. Fence it or just grow to feed deer.

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See the metal small pipe on the far right...drilled and high tensile wire strung on it.

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Garden gate...gate on both New Orchard AND veg garden...year round. NO deer in there to browse.

Doggone & Chicken UP!

Tara Lee Higgins
Higgins Rat Ranch Conservation Farm, Alberta, Canada

 

[Alaskan]

That could be perchie, I always thought it was bug repellent paint.

I think down south it is for bugs... Up here, yes, it is for the sun.

 

[perchie.girl]

dad helped out in orchards when he was a teen. In CA. the Apple orchard was very old. and not producing very well. His dad was brilliant at setting up farms and orchards and when they got to Berdu he hired out rather than do his own big farm/

Ond of dads jobs for the OLd orchard wias to go and Beat up the tree trunks with a baseball bat. YEp Whack whack whack all the way around for about two hundred Apple trees.

What happens is the bruising encourages sort of an immune response or fight or flight response and caused the apples to flourish again Gave em another five years of production.

They also used a quarter stick of dynamite to crack the hard pan to allow the field to drain. Every so many square feet.

Grandpa didnt mess around.

deb

 

[Alaskan]

Ooooooh! Playing with dynamite!

 

[BBQJOE]

Ooooooh! Playing with dynamite!

If you like that sort of thing, go online and look up tannerite. It's legal, and if you get ups delivery, they'll bring it right to your door. More fun than you can shake a stick at!!!
It'll make you giggle.
Loads of videos on youtube.

 

[hennible]

Young trees will burn here in the winter, so to speak. Never heard of painting them. I'll have to check that out beats wrapping them or using pipe insulation on the trunks.

Chick pic

 

[Cold Canadian]

What zone are you in? BC looks like it's a few zones. Reliance and Contender are the cold hardiest I've seen, zone 4. Red Haven is zone 5.

There are lots of zone two fruit trees available , cross's that have been introduced .I've had pear trees here ( rabbits killed them by gnawing off the bark at the base ) , apple trees , cherries raspberries , etc .....peach trees have sparked a interest but I've never actually bought any . You need to look at the Canadian prairie provinces , Saskatchewan , Manitoba which offer low zone fruit trees

 

[Peep_Show]

dad helped out in orchards when he was a teen. In CA. the Apple orchard was very old. and not producing very well. His dad was brilliant at setting up farms and orchards and when they got to Berdu he hired out rather than do his own big farm/

Ond of dads jobs for the OLd orchard wias to go and Beat up the tree trunks with a baseball bat. YEp Whack whack whack all the way around for about two hundred Apple trees.

What happens is the bruising encourages sort of an immune response or fight or flight response and caused the apples to flourish again Gave em another five years of production.

They also used a quarter stick of dynamite to crack the hard pan to allow the field to drain. Every so many square feet.

Grandpa didnt mess around.

deb

OMG... Do not -- repeat DO NOT -- tell my DH that dynamite is a gardening tool. I'd like a harvest, not smithereens.