Your garden should be on everybody's place to visit in about 20 years.

You have accomplished much in the last several years.

Are Deer a problem in your area? I see you have several conifers caged.

Dave

Nice job. Hows your back feeling? I had the same question as Dave. Will the deer pose a problem to pines this small. I;m planning on planting about 15 to 20 myself and do not know what (if any) precautions I should take? I did notice some of your caged trees were fruit trees?

I think deer are a problem everywhere. I'm just rollin' along doing my thing what I do as one of my best things, ya know? Deer eat anything and rub against anything. I welcome animals and will replace what they damage.

My hands I have problems with. Especially the size of drinks I pour.

Dax

Wow, you HAVE been busy Daxy!
It will be a joy to watch your garden grow.

Barbara

and I'm thinking about those turkeys I saw just south of your place - will they be a problem for your corn crop?

Marshall

They're hacklin'! Haven't seen one yet.

Dax

superb....

ken

Looking very nice, Dax, very nice indeed.

"My hands I have problems with. Especially the size of drinks I pour."

Does that mean when Dax's back is whacked he cracks some Jack?

tj

You the man Tom.

Thank you Ken.

Dax

Good going, Dax. Your little corner of paradise is well on its' way.

I'm going to start putting in seedlings this weekend, provided they ship in time. Stuff went out today from N. Minnesota (Itasca Greenhouse). Have no idea how long this will take to get here, but I suspect it will arrive any day now. 200 Norway spruce, 100 ponderosa pine, and 100 hybrid larch. Last Fri. I planted some more red-twigged dogwoods. These were free plants I dug up from where they were growing against a fence at one of our worksites. Stolonifera indeed! I will also be moving a fair number of Thuja o's from the woods up into the main planting area.

Dax, next storm system, could you please set up a large fan and blow some of that moisture up this way? Since the beginning of April, we've pretty much had a blocking high pressure hanging over us.......lots of cool, dry air, winds out of the North/Northeast, which this time of year is a very dry direction. Conditions are great for the actual planting, but then I'm gonna need it to rain. I really have no reasonable way to water all this stuff. Kens' free-range concept taken to its' fullest extent!

+oM

+om, I'm doing a rain dance now to the softing sounds of my weather radio.

Ahhhhh yes Stolonifera, I hate those even when they are free! Fungus capital of the world. It must be native there or something.

Nice combo there - I have yet to add Larix mastersiana but these I've had to grow from seed. It'll be a while yet.

Peace!

Dax

Dax, your plantings look great! Good variety and great location. Best wishes!

Yes deer will probably be an issue, but there's not a lot that can be done except place wire/cages around everything. We have lots of deer in my area and each year they do a fair amount of damage via rubbing and browsing. Over the past few weeks I've noticed that many of our small (1 - 3 feet tall) white spruces and concolor firs have missing branches and leaders thanks to hungry deer.

Dave

Thanks Dax. Yes, Cornus stolonifera is about as common a native shrub as you will find in these parts, but I love it just the same. Fungus? I don't quite get that. This is not a fussy plant, just needing moisture to grow.

My containerized seedlings took one day to get here (East-central Wisconsin) from N. Minnesota. They look good, and smell good too, the spruce anyway. I am very geeked about the work ahead of me, but wouldn't ya just know it, I've come down with a horrid cold-type thing. Still, the show must go on!

+oM

Super nice, thanks.
The leader on the Abies x phanerolepis looks unusually long, I wonder why?