Take a nut leave a nut !!!

[Banjo picker]

Maybe I can make an arrowhead out of the flint you're sending, and in a few years I'll make a hickory bow from the hickory nuts you're sending

 

It will have to be a bird point, they were pretty small pieces.,, but they did ask, about yours and Marcels....I didn't lie there's flint in there....wraped up in a piece of news paper....Tim

[isawlogs]

 I got all the boxes out to mail yesterday .. I went monday , but the post office was closed from 12:30 to 1:30 ... I got there at 12:35      I checked my watch and got there during business hours the next day 
  She must of asked me (post master) a half a dozen time if all I was sending was nuts ... yep .. She sure did not look to impressed .   

[Robert Long]

Bonjeni isawlogs

I got your package today!   thanks for the nuts and I will plant them ASAP.

Do not apologize for your 'Anglais'  I wish I could communicate in French like you do in English

Robert

[Lanier_Lurker]

Thanks for the butternuts, Dodgy!!

I went ahead and threw them in a bucket of water on Friday.  Of the 43, 38 sank to the bottom.  That is pretty encouraging.  I left them in there for a few hours.

I'll get them potted into something this week.

[Dodgy Loner]

Good to hear!  Maybe with our efforts butternut won't be such an uncommon tree around here 50 years from now

I put the shumard acorns you gave me in the fridge for now.  The seedlings will be in the ground this week. 

[WDH]

We finally got enough rain to provide enough ground moisture to plant the northern red oak, shumard oak, and the hickories that you gave me.

We are doing a good thing for the distribution of species.  Maybe we need to send Swamp Donkey a Scarlet Oak .

[Banjo picker]

I got all the boxes out to mail yesterday ..

I got mine this morning...now I got to figure how to hedge my bets on getting the most to sprout.......Dogys butternuts were here when we go back ( been to horse camp at Natchiz Trace St Pk. in Tenn....)  picked up a couple lbs. of white oak acorns that were laying everywhere...hitting the camper and truck every time the wind would blow....of those on the ground about half already had started to sprout....planted all but a few this moning....took a iron worker line up bar poked a hole and hoped for the best, with them....going to start the chestnuts and the butternuts in my raised bed garden as I don't plant much else in it anyway....any info would be helpful from any that has been sucessful in the past with either...thanks for the nuts guys, Tim

[SwampDonkey]

Well butternut I know are easy as planting corn to grow. Some will take up to 2 years to sprout though. But, they sprout up on the lawn like weeds. Of course I have to mow around them.   


http://www.forestryforum.com/board/index.php/topic,20363.0.html


 

[Robert Long]

isawlogs

I got your parcel and the chestnuts are planted, now, how do you keep the squirrels from digging them up

Robert

[SwampDonkey]

and skunks



....and coons


 

 

[isawlogs]

Robert :
   With a .22 .   

 Glad to hear they made it , Beenthere and I got to wondering on how they deliver things bur it all turned out fine . I had a tracking number for his and checking on the parcel where abouts on sunday , the site had it delivered to Windsor ....    Thats closer , but aint where I sent it .    I got on the horn on Monday AM and was about to raise a rukuss when the post master told me it was delivered to customs in Windsor ....    OK .... Beenthere sent me a note about the same time asking me about the parcel ..... 
 We got it all cleared a half hour after he sent me that note the parcel was delivered to him . 

[Dodgy Loner]

Got my nuts today, banjo picker!  Thanks a bunch

[Robert Long]

Isawlogs

That's funny,   Beenthere's nuts passed through Windsor (right by my house on their way to you!

Robert

[SwampDonkey]

They'll be jinxed or tainted now Marcel.


It's funny when I try to track a package here. The last sighting is usually near Montreal and then it's lost in the dark void of the Maritimes. They won't list it's location after that.  One time I got a location and a package was in Moncton. It has to go by here to get there, 3 hours away.

[Banjo picker]

Hey Swampdonkey, I went back and read the link to the butternuts....you are the butternut guru it seems....In so doing I think I might be well advised to plant them where I want them instead of planting and then transplanting....Ponder this...how about taking an aluminum can, cut both ends out plant the nut then push the can over it, leaving about an inch out of the ground...stick a flag in the ground by it..after its 5 years old come back and cut the can off...Tim

[Banjo picker]

SD another question, after they come up,(being opmististic) are the deer going to have the hots for them.  Tim

[SwampDonkey]

Deer don't seem to bother them, except like a moose to scrape their velvet when they get a few feet tall.  However, protect from the rodents when they are little.

Mark the area you've sunk the nuts into and start protecting them as they emerge. I like the fine wire better (1 cm square stuff), and splay the base like an upside down peeled banana to keep critters from digging around it. You basically wrap the tree loose with the wire. Then splay the base of the wire cage. Just use wire snips and cut slits 6" and bend at 90 ° to make feet that sit on top of the ground. The can might restrict lateral root growth by sinking it in the mud. Don't think that would be a good idea. If I can relocate them on the woodlot, it's not too hard to find them in the yard.