How old is this Incense Cedar?

[Left Coast Chris]

Thanks 52...... I have not made up my mind regarding what I will plant in the back 6 acres where I pulled out the walnut orchard.   I would really be better off replanting walnuts but since I cannot use methal bromide to get rid of the nematodes from the old walnuts I have to wait 4 or 5 years to replant if I go with more walnuts.

I am now experimenting with some Giant Sequioas.....bought some 6" seedlings off ebay.   Suposedly if you give them alot of water they do well in the heat.   A pine cone came with the trees so I planted the seeds and got 5 new sprouts now!

I was also in Kentucky this summer and brought back some Red Oak, Red Maple, Burr Oak, Eastern Black Walnut, Ginko Biloba, Pinn Oak and Eastern Buckeye and planted them all at the same time.   Only the Sequioas are coming up.  Not sure if the Oaks and Maples needed some chilling first.   Not sure if they will germinate.

[rpg52]

If you are thinking of a crop for that ground, I'd look into Ginko.  There may be a market for the nuts, the herbal people say it improves your memory and are selling extracts and the whole nuts.  Only problem is the covering of the nut smells like rancid butter, so it isn't too popular to have around.  If you can stand that though, you might even have a better paying crop than walnuts.
Ray

[LeeB]

I'm no gardener but my wife tells me ceddar mulch will get rid of nematodes. Ii guess 6 acres of mulch would be a little much though. LeeB

[Left Coast Chris]

I will look into the Ginko market.  Don't know a thing about the trees.  We can grow about anything here that is edible so it may be a possibility.  The smell....... I took off the flesh from the seed and it honestly smelled like vomit.  It stunk up my whole hotel room until I flushed it.  It was pretty bad.   

As for the cedar mulch.......I assume it is ground up ceder bark?  That would definately be alot for the 6 acres.    I am currently in year 3 of the 5 year nemetode dye off period so the fall back position is to put it in pasture.  That would let me plant some of the hard wood trees I have collected so I am leaning in that direction.

-thanks-

[LeeB]

Any or all of it. Not just the bark. LeeB

[SwampDonkey]

Tuberseal and maybe others use Douglas fir bark, ground up fine, for there potato seed treating chemical. I suppose it gets bound to the dust as a way of delivering it to the cut wet surface of a potato. Protects against disease and bugs. I forget the % of bark, but it's pretty high. Just happened to notice it as one of the ingredients on the bag.

[edit]Did a little internet reading and apparently the bark is an active ingredient in Fusarium fungus treatment.