Wisconsin "Cheeseheads"

[eatbluefood]

I'm in Madison, WI. Anyone interested in a couple of 9 week old olive egger cockerels? I can't have them in the city. They need to go before they crow! Their dad is a black copper marans. Moms are olive egger and easter egger.

 

[TOR]

If I was not 2.5 hours away I would, but if no luck here u can try craigslist.

 

[jvls1942]

Hi de ho good neighbors,
I went outside a few times today. really didn't get much accomplished with the constant drizzle.
I found a small tree growing under my apple tree. Oh good, a volunteer apple tree? Nope, it was a burdock. .
I located one of my two 2ftx3ft duck pools. I am going to poke holes in the bottoms and make two strawberry planters..
I found a nice tall plastic waste container. I am going to poke holes in it for a potato planter.
Saturday is supposed to be dry. I have a whole week's worth of work to do that day before it begins to rain again.
.......jiminwaUSAu.......

 

[jvls1942]

good news, On Saturday I planted the two pear trees. That did me in physically. I called my nephew. He came and planted the two apple trees for me. then I brought four buckets of wood chips and we/he leveled off the holes . I got the hose going and got all of the trees watered real good. It is raining today so the wood chip mulch is getting watered in good..
I had the two apple trees in dirt in my wheel barrow for about two weeks. I had Tomato Tone in the dirt just in case the trees wanted to start growing. Well they did. They were loaded with blossoms when we took them out to plant them.
my garlic is about 30 inches tall. I never planted garlic before. IDK if that is normal height or not ?
all the new rhubarb is doing great, too.
Plus, the rhubarb up at the house that I thought was gone, came up this spring. It had not come up for two years.
.....jiminwisc........

 

[TOR]

Had my daughter help me we redid the fence netting around 3 fruit trees and also put down new weed barrier down. Have 1 tree to go.
We got pears last year first nice crop, trees about 7 years old now.
Did not get much apple blossoms, we had a frost wonder if it killed them off. I also sprayed early with immunox for cedar apple rust, maybe I sprayed to early?
Put in 3 new norway spruce with metal chicken wire guards.
Have 10 Black walnuts to plant yet. They will have guards also.
All trees I plant are either in tree tubes or sometype of guard otherwise the deer kill them.
Your garlic if planted last fall should be tall. I used to grow it years ago. We used to have a big garden and now downsized to different location.
Most tillable low lying land I put into sweet corn now.
If you have rabbits dont forget to put tree guards on before winter. Even my older fruit trees I do not use the deer fencing, but I use chicken wire around the bottom tree for tree guard. If get a deep snow pack in winter the rabbits run on top snow if the find any tender bark they eat it.

 

[jvls1942]

TOR, do you know about black walnuts ?
I planted 100 of them into a grove.
They kill off just about any kind of fruit tree, nut tree or bush. I could list the things that they killed for me. Asparagus, blueberries, oak, apple, butternut, pine, hazlenut , just to name a few.,
If you decide to plant those black walnuts, put them far away from just about anything you want to grow.
Read up on them .. If I had it to do over, I would not plant a single one.
Even after the tree is cut down, the ground around it is toxic for years to come.
......jiminwisc......

 

[TOR]

Yah I did some research, could be harmful to horses, possible cattle and other animals, trees, shrubs, plants Then I have read where people pasture horses and cattle around black walnut and no problems. Maby its the density of the trees which animals are grazed in?

I am planting them on a hillside, south facing more sandy loam as compared to the heavy clay on the lower land. WiIl not hurt anything there. More cedars and briars where I am planting them and a few shagbark hickory. Shagbark hickory kinda do the same as black walnut. Not a fan of the cedar trees I cut some of them down, really hard on the apple trees.

I wanted to plant some other nut trees, but sold out. My fault should have ordered earlier.
Anyway I usually get trees from woodstock by nielsville black walnut are fairly reasonable priced.

Thank You Jim for the comments much appreciated.

 

[babylady4]

As someone who has 50+ black walnut trees on their property...... you will regret planting them.

I am on 5 acres and i cannot plant much of anything due to the number of black walnut trees. We had around 30 cut down this winter and it barely made a dent. I have planted trees in their place that will withstand the jugalone toxin; some oaks, maples, chestnut...... but no fruit trees for a minimum of 5 years.

If I want a garden the entire thing would need to be raised beds.

The ducks were reformed over the weekend, so the chicks that I hatched have been relocated out to the duck house! Just in time for the next batch of meat birds arriving tomorrow. The batch that needs to be butchered are getting huge...... a week and a half to go yet.

Luna is growing like a weed..... and we are totally smitten. She has brought so much joy to the house, and I am certainly enjoying having a big dog again. We keep calling her Trixie 2.0.....

 

[wyoDreamer]

We planted 2 black walnuts and 2 english walnuts 2 or 3 years ago. I thought both had been killed the first winter by the bark eaters. This spring, I found 1' tall sprouts that grew from the roots. Since there are only 4 of them and they are planted along what will become our field entrance driveway, I am hoping for minimal issues with the toxin. They are 50 feet away from the apple orchard - I hope that is enough distance.

 

[TOR]

Estimates on root length vary, but most arborists agree that mature trees can have roots extend out from the trunk up to four times the height of the tree. If your black walnut is 40 feet tall, the roots could extend out 160 feet.

Where I am planting mine will have no ill effect on anything, maybe ill get lucky and kill the cedar and briars and other assorted brush. Might be a wild apple tree I dont care about it either. I have alot of wild apple, crabapple I think, Some of them have to be 60 to 80 years old. I had a bulldozer clean part of a side hill and removed the old apple trees and some old elm stands. Replanted with hardwoods.