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neb
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# Posted: 24 Feb 2022 11:47am
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I will be planting 25 quaking aspens this spring. I'm getting things ready and planned 2–3-foot bare root trees.
Two years ago, I planted June Berry and Black Currants and they have done well and hope to nurse them along for another year.
How many others have planted trees for fruit and for the beauty and benefit of trees?
Any planting tips, suggestions and advise would be welcomed.
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lburners
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# Posted: 24 Feb 2022 12:09pm
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I was hoping to plant a couple but feel like I would have to work on a clearing for sunlight. I am under the impression that fruit trees take a lot of sunlight to produce.
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neb
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# Posted: 24 Feb 2022 01:29pm
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Quoting: lburners I was hoping to plant a couple but feel like I would have to work on a clearing for sunlight. I am under the impression that fruit trees take a lot of sunlight to produce.
It says for quaking to be planted on north or east locations. I do know aspen not like hot hot dry spots to live.
Fruit trees I suppose the more sun the better for ripening etc..
I have wild berry bushes and trees on north slopes and seem to not bother for maturing the fruit. I live in northern country of the US.
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deercula
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# Posted: 24 Feb 2022 01:35pm
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Beavers will love you!
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Brettny
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# Posted: 24 Feb 2022 02:11pm
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I have never seen a bever chew a Aspen. Here they go mostly after river or black birch.
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NorthRick
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# Posted: 24 Feb 2022 06:18pm
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We have plenty of trees already. As for fruit trees, well moose love them even when they have no fruit. I figured it isn't worth the aggravation of trying to keep moose from eating the trees.
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neb
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# Posted: 24 Feb 2022 08:16pm
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I'm close to river but the beaver stay down in the river bottoms. Deer and moose could be a problem, but I will give it a try. I have had success without big game eating nes trees. This time could be different though.
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DaveBell
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# Posted: 24 Feb 2022 09:20pm
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Quoting: neb Any planting tips, suggestions and advise would be welcomed.
I'm planting Loblolly pines. The only things I know that may be of interest is don't fertilize for 12 months and some fruit trees (like apple) need to be planted in pairs or more.
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neb
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# Posted: 24 Feb 2022 09:38pm
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Quoting: DaveBell I'm planting Loblolly pines. The only things I know that may be of interest is don't fertilize for 12 months and some fruit trees (like apple) need to be planted in pairs or more.
Didn't know about the fertilizer info. That is great to know.
Fruit trees are in pairs for pollination purposes I believe.
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Nate R
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# Posted: 25 Feb 2022 08:13am - Edited by: Nate R
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The bare root aspen seedlings I planted got mowed down repeatedly by deer. I think a couple of the maybe 10 I've planted MIGHT make it.
Meanwhile, on another property nearby that had aspen clearcut, the suckers grew back so fast from the existing root system, and so many of them, that the deer couldn't overwhelm them the same way.
My local forester said, at least in our area, deer seem to love nursery grown trees......Some thought that htey have more nutrients than the poor soil in our area provides otherwise.
I've got some apple trees in tree tubes the last couple years, I think they're going to get above tube height this year. Also planted white pines and red pines....I've bud capped the white pines before winter a couple times, and that was very helpful....prevented deer browse on those.
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Steve_S
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# Posted: 25 Feb 2022 08:46am
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Personally, Pine and other non-producing trees have their place but times being what they are and with an unknown future ahead, I would be planting things that produce Fruits, Nuts, Berries and more which will take time to reach "production" and by which time they will be needed & desired.
Consider thing like the dropping food production on the North American west coast, thanks to the 20 yr drought (some slo-mo tried to say it was only 3 years long and dimmies pushed that too). Then consider how much "food stuffs" come from external sources and all the Shipping Troubles + now yet another freakin war just for Kicks & Giggles Politics...
Anyone thinking ahead should be considering planting "Food Forests" with trees that produce edibles and setting up Gardens & Greenhouses and even Perennial Natural Food Gardens which return yearly (Many climate zones can do this quite well).
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neb
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# Posted: 25 Feb 2022 09:04am
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Quoting: Steve_S Anyone thinking ahead should be considering planting "Food Forests" with trees that produce edibles and setting up Gardens & Greenhouses and even Perennial Natural Food Gardens which return yearly (Many climate zones can do this quite well).
I enjoy the berry trees that I have planted and get a lot of berries that I freeze and eat all year long. I have
bags frozen of black/yellow currants, juneberry, blue berry that we use all year long.
I have wild choke cherry and juneberry trees on my place.
It is so nice to be able to pick and use the berry and planting fruit and edible producing plants is a great idea.
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Nobadays
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# Posted: 25 Feb 2022 09:54am
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Quoting: Brettny I have never seen a bever chew a Aspen.
Come on out west to Colorado.... Aspens are their primary "chew toys!"
Quoting: Nate R The bare root aspen seedlings I planted got mowed down repeatedly by deer.
Our property is primarily Aspen (with a few Spruce, fir and pine,) of which many are quite big and old, and a disease is killing some by rotting out the heart. We get Aspen shoots/trees sprouting up all over the place every year, but the deer eat 90% of them or nip the top so ruin them. I really want some of the young trees to survive so am going to put little fences around the ones I want to keep. Probably the only way you will keep your new bare roots safe. A neighbor has done this by using about a 4-5' piece of 4' fencing, rolled and placed over the trees and staked with steel fence posts.
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neb
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# Posted: 28 Feb 2022 09:51am
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Nobadays, thanks for that info. I do know they will have suckers that come up to start a colony.
I'm hoping they won't get too invasive. Where I'm going to plant them, the soil is very fertile and gets a good share of sub moisture from irrigated fileds. Also, a drainage that runs very near them and has water about 6 months a year.
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KinAlberta
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# Posted: 5 Mar 2022 04:40pm - Edited by: KinAlberta
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At our place it is overwhelmingly trembling aspen. Then areas of spruce and some birch.
Over the years we’ve planted all kinds of trees* and shrubs here in central Alberta with really mixed results. (Probably planted around 1,000 maybe more - 1,500 maybe by now.)
We’re not prepared to properly nurse anything along so we shove things in the ground and from there on they are pretty much on their own. Some do well but most don’t. Just happy when say 2 or 3 in 10 survive.
Have planted acorns, seedlings, root stock, retail potted trees and donated suckers and naturally sprouted trees.
Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
Warren Buffett
For fun, i’ve bought hundreds of tulip, crocus and other flower bulbs and we’ve walked our trails planting them. Deers will love them! 
* wide variety of pines, willows, as well as Manitoba maple, griffin poplar, plains cottonwood poplar, burr oak, American elm lilac, caragana, mountain ash, etc. (one time a planting of 200 pine seedlings yielded zero survivors)
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