Don't forget to replant

[bookerdog]

I know were all cutting wood with spring here, but its also time to plant.

 

[manual]

Very thoughtful of you, this time of the year. (last year and this)
I'll walk down some power lines and dig up some white pine seedlings and transplant on my property.
I figure they are going to get brush hogged anyway.

 

[RiverRat2]

We do that!!!!!

Took down two large Live Oaks @ St. Henry's a month ago

and replanted a couple of those flowering Bradford pears,,,

They are already blooming!!!!!!!!!!

 

[bookerdog]

Took down two large Live Oaks @ St. Henry's a month ago

and replanted a couple of those flowering Bradford pears,,,

They are already blooming!!!!!!!!!!

Bradford pears those are great flowering tree's.

 

[Lakeside53]

I put about 60 trees in in the past few weeks! 30 are xmas trees, but the rest are to replace the storm damage blowdown. I also replant the understory.

The best time to plant a tree is yesterday! My property is covered in trees I grew from seed or from cuttings. I was just looking at my 35 foot tall 17 year old Serrated Zelkova - from a seed... Everyone laughed when I started this...

 

[bookerdog]

The tree's in the pic's will ether be a christmas tree farm or reforestation. I planted 1000 last week and 1000 this past weekend. I had to do something with the 10 acre field because they decided to triple my property taxes on open land. It has to go into ag. or back into timber.

 

[bookerdog]

I put about 60 trees in in the past few weeks! 30 are xmas trees, but the rest are to replace the storm damage blowdown. I also replant the understory.

The best time to plant a tree is yesterday! My property is covered in trees I grew from seed or from cuttings. I was just looking at my 35 foot tall 17 year old Serrated Zelkova - from a seed... Everyone laughed when I started this...

I have a 20 yo monkey tree everyone thought I was crazy to plant. Everyone said it wouldn't make it here but it did.

 

[windthrown]

Tree planting.

Kind'a late to plant for forest in the PNW. The trees are coming out of dormancy now. We normally plant in winter here. We planted um... about 1,000 trees this year. Over 2,500 last year. Maybe 5,000 or so the previous 2 years before that. We are finally finished replanting under our forest plan here. Giant sequoias. Ponderosa pines. Doug and grand firs. Red and insence cedar. Red alder. Oregon ash. Pacific, red and hooker willow. Bigleaf and vine maple. Oregon white and California black oak. Coastal redwood. And a fruit tree orchard. Lots of digging, planting, scraping, spraying, tubing, and well, work. I am now planting 300 pinot noir grapes in a starter/test vineyard.

We have the dirt gene here...

 

[Mr.]

Every great sucess story starts with someone telling you, you cannot do something. I'll tell you that you cannot grow pinot grapes where you live. Not quality anyways.

Now go and suceed.

Fred

BTW they are the grapes pinot noir is made from, but the noir part comes from leaving the skins in the juice for a couple days or so. A terrible habit.

 

[DGG]

Nice pictures. They sure are small at this stage.

 

[Ed*L]

Nice reminder!!!!
I planted a few Doug Fir last fall. I had to be real carefull where they got planted, we don't have much of the right soil type for them.
They all appear to have made it thru the winter, my White Oaks all seem to be ok also.

Ed

 

[bookerdog]

Kind'a late to plant for forest in the PNW. The trees are coming out of dormancy now. We normally plant in winter here. We planted um... about 1,000 trees this year. Over 2,500 last year. Maybe 5,000 or so the previous 2 years before that. We are finally finished replanting under our forest plan here. Giant sequoias. Ponderosa pines. Doug and grand firs. Red and insence cedar. Red alder. Oregon ash. Pacific, red and hooker willow. Bigleaf and vine maple. Oregon white and California black oak. Coastal redwood. And a fruit tree orchard. Lots of digging, planting, scraping, spraying, tubing, and well, work. I am now planting 300 pinot noir grapes in a starter/test vineyard.

We have the dirt gene here...

You guys on the coastal range are lucky being able to plant in the winter. Here in the cascade's between mt hood and mt adams we all plant in the spring, because by the time the nursery's dig the tree's were already covered with snow. I hear more people are planting pinot noir grapes on the coastal range because of the cooler climate.

 

[Gologit]

Every fall we gather acorns from our native oaks and spread some around. Some grow and some don't but I'd like to think that we're helping a little. The ones that seem to grow best are the volunteers that the squirrels don't get. Theres just forty acres on our home place but after twenty years there are a lot more oaks than when we came here. We have more ground ajoining this place, pasture mostly, that I'd like to plant oaks for shade in but the cows keep eating the little trees.

 

[bookerdog]

I have a big old black walnut in back of the old farmhouse. It amazes me when I get black walnut sprouts popping up sometimes 50 yards away from the tree.

 

[windthrown]

Every great sucess story starts with someone telling you, you cannot do something. I'll tell you that you cannot grow pinot grapes where you live. Not quality anyways.

Now go and suceed.

Fred

BTW they are the grapes pinot noir is made from, but the noir part comes from leaving the skins in the juice for a couple days or so. A terrible habit.

Well, I am not sure what you are saying here. In this area you can grow some of the best pinot noir in the world. Pinot noir is a type of grape; a noble grape at that. As opposed to say, pinot gris. I know a lot about wine and grapes. This is a test plot for a potential expansion to maybe 8 acres total. I know that a vineyard is a long shot, and I do not expect to make a fortune off of this. Maybe one and a half tons of grapes a year off of this 1/3 planted acre, dry farmed, making 3 barrels of wine, and thus 750 bottles of wine a year. If they survive, do not get frozen, eaten by bugs, birds or bears. I lived in CA for years and harvested and helped make wine for several top quality vineyards there. Testarossa, Woodside, Rosenblum. Our neighbors a mile over with 100 acres that borders our property have 12 acres in pinot noir. They are the ones that I got the plants from. Dijon clones 114, 115, and 667. I rooted them from their prunings last year. You cannot import grape plants into Oregon from out of state. Ag restrictions.

As for making wine, I have a buyer for the grapes. Hillcrest vineyards. I know the new owner and he is a cool guy. He buys from our neighbors and makes a select vintage from their grapes (actually I introduced them). A rule of thumb here is not to plant grapes unless you have a buyer of a particular type of grapes. We live in heat zone II here. Good for chardonay, pinot noir, and pinot gris. My little 1/3 acre vineyard is sloped hillside facing south, with a cold drain below it extending into a valley creek area. It is the same red clay soil that does well for growing pinot in the Willamette Valley. Also this area of Douglas County was matched perfectly with Burgundy, France for latitude, temperature, climate, rainfall, soil type, and grape growing potential. Actually, according to some 'experts' I know, there are few other resions in the world that match so closely as Douglas Co, Oregon and Burgundy, France. Thje potential here is huge... if you have the money to invest. I do not, but I have the land to grow something on.

We also need something other than trees, berries, bamboo and garlic. I grow about 300 lb of garlic a year. I am at the limit of what I can grow cultivating myself w/o expanding further. Takes too much land and prep to rotate to avoid nematodes and rot, so I am keeping that small scale. I have also had a hard time finding a market to sell it in. Farmer's markets around here are really guilds for larger farms. I sell at a few garlic and wine fairs around here in summer. I got my name and picture in the paper last year. I am an 'expert' garlic grower now. Marion berries do great here too. There is a labor shortage in Oregon and it is hard to get berries to market. I'd have to truck them too far and for the price, so it is not worth it. They are good eating though. We gourge ourselves here on berries in summer. I have about a 1/4 acre of beries under cultivation (a previous test plot). I have been growing black and raspberries for over 30 years now. Wherever I have lived: San Diego, San Jose, Monterey, (all in California) and Hillsboro and central Oregon. I drag rooted cutting around with me wherever I go. And bamboo... I have 12 varieties. I can sell them potted up or trade for anything I want at nursery shows and with nurseries. I really am a nurseryman, but not above the table. They tax and license nurseries here according to sales...

 

[Lou]

I'm married to an environmental scientist (bows head). I'm surronded by 1.5acres of 100' Doug Firs and few big cedars. The @#$% things plant themselves. She lovingly waters and tends them until... they get big enough to threaten the house by fire or falling. Then I hear HONEY. Me I grasp them delicately by the trunk and rip their little aZZ out of the soil.

 

[bookerdog]

I'm married to an environmental scientist (bows head). I'm surronded by 1.5acres of 100' Doug Firs and few big cedars. The @#$% things plant themselves. She lovingly waters and tends them until... they get big enough to threaten the house by fire or falling. Then I hear HONEY. Me I grasp them delicately by the trunk and rip their little aZZ out of the soil.

Love to cut them up. Don't love planting them so much. Its much funner to cut with a saw then dig with a shovel.

 

[SawTroll]

Some decades ago, spruce were planted here in areas were it didn't belong - mostly bad results, not real timber, and not so good firewood either - lots of them just died also.....:monkey: :monkey:

Natural birch growth would have been much better.

 

[Lou]

I forgot to mention the Hemlock and some maples. All planted by God I imagine. What we have occur naturally. They (big ones) have resided here longer than have we.