Butternut Seedlings

[WDH]

Nice butternuts.  I see that you have some apples, pears, peaches, and plums too  .

[SwampDonkey]

Yes, I was hoping they would serve as scale for the nuts that were mature versus the early duds.   Nice aspen veneered strawberry box to.

[sandhills]

Swamp Donkey, I have no idea how butternut would do down here (central Nebraska, I have clay, and sandy soils) but I would be interested in giving them a try if you'd be willing to sell a few.  I planted a short row of black walnut along a fenceline this fall, and a few peach pits, I also tried planting some apple and peach tree seedlings there a few years back but the ones that made it through the first years the best, the deer got a hold of last fall .  Anyway, if you think they stand a chance down here I'd like to try it, I'd pay some and equal it with a donation to the FF, it's just a small corner of a field and I don't have much room to work with, just looking for a little diversity.

[SwampDonkey]

I wouldn't be able to move plant material through the border sandhills. Could try and send some nuts sometime. I'm all out of them for this year though. Wasn't a very good nut year here, but I planted some and gave a small bunch away to a couple forum members.

[SwampDonkey]

Just adding another butternut in here.

[beenthere]

Which is which?   

[SwampDonkey]

Just toss a coin.

[sandhills]

That's fine, I didn't make myself very clear, the nuts were what I was referring to, I figured seedlings wouldn't work across the border.  Next fall keep me in mind if you have a few extra, I'd be more than happy to buy them, don't know how this little experiment is going to turn out just yet, playing around more than anything else and trying to keep adding to it. Thanks

[SwampDonkey]

That pretty much sums it up for my end to, just experimenting and playing. The moose have not bothered them yet, but I'm sure they'll rip up a few in time.

[SwampDonkey]

Recently, I have been marking out a woodlot for some PCT work. I noticed a lot of old butternut were harvested, but left to lay on the ground and rot. One up side however, I have been finding a lot of butternut saplings. Many are from seed, some off stumps. When I walk bye on perimeter I tie ribbon on them. Most cutters have no clue whether it's ash, sumac or butternut. They call it all ash. If it's not maple, birch and softwoods they don't know it. On the way out there, there is an old abandoned house, and guess what is over growing the place, butternut. The squirrels must be having fun around there. I'll get a picture.

Also I might mention I have been marking out a piece on public land, it also has butternut saplings. We worked on it a couple years back and I saved a lot of butternut trees on my work strips.

[SwampDonkey]

From the public land I'm marking out, here are a few butternut. Yellow line pointing to each.

[SwampDonkey]

Here's the old homestead of the family members that still live nearby. I'm thinning for some cousins of these folks. The old man that grew up there (their father) lived to be 93 I think. He passed away about 11 years ago. Anyway, you can see the house here with a bunch of butternut trees over taking it. Looking in the yard beyond the house there, I saw many old butternut trees and smaller ones. They can be seen from the road as one drives by. There is a small lake the house over looks, called Barret Lake.