Cedar, Spruce, and Netting

[slowp]

I just got done with my 2015 tree planting. Hope I did it right. I'll still put some of the velux tubes around a few of last year's planting.

Here's my tools plus scissors.


Here's what ya do. You pull netting onto tube and bunch it up, insert cedar into tube, pull netting up over cedar and pull cedar and netting out, then cut off with scissors.


Then add Sitka Spruce and put both in one hole--brown side down.


The Pointy Tailed supervisor tries to hide.


More fun with netting. I slipped it over the eaten up seedlings and we'll see if they make it.

 

[Cedarkerf]

I just got done with my 2015 tree planting. Hope I did it right. I'll still put some of the velux tubes around a few of last year's planting.

Here's my tools plus scissors.
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Here's what ya do. You pull netting onto tube and bunch it up, insert cedar into tube, pull netting up over cedar and pull cedar and netting out, then cut off with scissors.
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Then add Sitka Spruce and put both in one hole--brown side down.
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We have all sizes of Cedar seedlings from 4" to 4 feet but its a little hard to make it over the hill to your side

The Pointy Tailed supervisor tries to hide.
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More fun with netting. I slipped it over the eaten up seedlings and we'll see if they make it.
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[Gologit]

Are you going to have venison in the freezer if they get after your trees again?

 

[slowp]

Are you going to have venison in the freezer if they get after your trees again?

Maybe. The deer are pretty scrawny here so one might fit in the freezer part of the fridge. Funny though, I've planted cedar in other areas and they remain untouched.
I hope the deer are not as smart here. In some places, either they or the elk, or both, tear off the netting and tubing.

Today is rainy, which will be good for the new trees.

 

[slowp]

Added tubing to some of the trees. Nope, the dog tail is not part of the plan.

 

[OlympicYJ]

Was just touring the tree farm near Winston Creek... not too far from ya Miss P. I can verify that putting a spruce seedling with a cedar seedling does not work... although the way you are doing it could very well help but with no netting or tubing the cedars got savaged. Now their bretherin across the road and inside the fence are cranking along nicely....

 

[slowp]

A tree farm down the road tubed their cedar. I think I posted some pictures somewhere. The deer and elk chomp anything that sticks out of the tube. So, they recently interplanted with Doug fir, probably to get the required stocking level.

There are rumors of a newly developed WRC variety that doesn't taste good to them. Rumors, and it won't be available for the small operations.

 

[OlympicYJ]

I think I've heard that rumor too. Other than that I have no idea. I can ask some folks to see if it does exist.

 

[imagineero]

Maybe spray them with chilli spray or similar? Works on cats but you have to reapply intermittently

 

[Gologit]

Maybe spray them with chilli spray or similar? Works on cats but you have to reapply intermittently

The deer might like it. Those Warshington deer are tough critters.

 

[slowp]

Plus, anything you spray on will wash off in a day or so. We are famous for rain here. That's what it is doing this morning and might do until the middle of July. Our deer are small and mangy looking.