[MassChestnutOrchards] Materials for SK/MG planting

Fri Apr 2 12:36:27 EDT 2010

Re: [MassChestnutOrchards] Materials for SK/MG plantingYvonne: I took two partial rolls of hardware cloth to Kathy's yesterday. I figured that way it would be closer to RI. If more is needed let me know and I can probably get more.

Rufin
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Yvonne Federowicz 
  To: masschestnutorchards at masschestnut.org 
  Sent: Friday, April 02, 2010 12:11 PM
  Subject: Re: [MassChestnutOrchards] Materials for SK/MG planting

  Hi John,

  Roy at Glocester has been using hardware cloth from the start, and Brian at Westerly needs more for existing plants - so if I can get the materials now, that's great, otherwise April 24 should work too. (SK is going to start with Bluex as you mention.) 

  Deer might get at Westerly or Glocester this summer if they're unlucky.

  I'd like to have the milk cartons at South Kingstown so we can use the same batch of planting mix and do everything at once; we did this at the initial Westerly planting and it worked well.  Roy might wish to do the same at Glocester. 

  Thus my attempt to do everything in one fell swoop.

  Thanks - the nuts are BC3s from Nanking Chinese, so I'm not sure if Charlotte would like them in with Graves or Clapper line(s)...?

  On 4/2/10 11:18 AM, "Mirick, John O." <jmirick at mirickoconnell.com> wrote:

    Yvonne:

    Hardware cloth does not need to be used at time of original planting.  Purpose of hardware cloth is to keep rabbits and rodents from gnawing bark on seedlings/saplings in winter.  BlueX  gives adequate protection during spring/summer.  And actually, I found that BlueX (if intact) gives protection through a couple of winters as well.  You really need the hardware cloth for when outer sleeve of BlueX deteriorates, and the inner hard plastic sheet unrolls, exposing the bark to hungry critters.

    So..in terms of logistics, if Rufin brings the hardware cloth to the April Board meeting, that's plenty of time.

    For the commercial "milk carton" planters, you can probably keep your nuts in slightly damp peat moss in the refrigerator for an extra couple of weeks, and get the planters (and in my case, the holders for the planters) at the board meeting.

    Everything else sounds like you'll need it for planting before the board meeting.  Good planting!

    As to planting leftover nuts in Mass., I have about 40 open sites in my orchard which can certainly be used.  However, everything else in my orchard was planted in 2005 or 2006.  If the goal is to have even-aged trees in an orchard, then it probably wouldn't make sense to use those sites.  However, if those nuts would otherwise be discarded, I'd be happy to give them a home if you brought them to the April meeting.

    John

    From: masschestnutorchards-bounces at masschestnut.org [mailto:masschestnutorchards-bounces at masschestnut.org] On Behalf Of Yvonne Federowicz
    Sent: Friday, April 02, 2010 10:47 AM
    To: orchard mgrlist
    Subject: [MassChestnutOrchards] FW: Materials for SK/MG planting

    Hi folks,   I would like to meet someone up in MA within the next 2 weeks to pick up materials, if we can arrange the different items.

    So far: for South Kingstown & Westerly  (Roy - if you need me to get anything for Glocester from MA, please let me know. I'll try to get extra hardware cloth, perhaps?)

    Milk cartons: Jamie
    Planting mix: Jamie per notes below?

    Bluexes: being shipped to Yvonne
    Hardware cloth: Rufin

    American nuts: a few from Brian
    Other nuts: already in SK & some with Yvonne

    Bamboo poles:  Yvonne will order today if no one has enough
    Bulb planters: Yvonne has 2
    Osmocote: Yvonne has and hopes it didn't get ruined in her flooded basement

    Clothespins - should be available somewhere local
    Marking supplies - tape or other system - local
    Bins, wheelbarrows for mixing, watering etc. - local

    Anything else?

    Other issues: Charlotte - do we want to plant the remainder of the 2 Nanking lines in a MA orchard as "backup" for South Kingstown? There will be >100 of one line and a smaller number of 2nd line.
    This is in addition to "backups" we will pot up in milk cartons in South Kingstown.

    If we are planting these nuts in MA, perhaps I should bring them up when I get supplies in MA soon? 

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