[MassChestnutOrchards] Materials for SK/MG planting

[Mirick, John O.]

Yvonne:

Clothes pins are readily available at Home Depot.  Pretty inexpensive.

A different method of marking stakes is to dip the small ends into paint about 4" and let them dry overnight.  If you're short of paint colors, you can do "two tone" marking, waiting a day after the first 4" dip, and then doing a second 2" dip.  Then you can put the stakes painted tip down into a 5 gallon bucket, and pull them out at random for each hole.  You need as many colors as there are lines and controls (actually, one less because you can do a plain stake).   I simply used left over paint from various projects.  Paint last longer than tape, and continues to be an easy field identification of each line for 2-3 years.

Don't know if it will be any help, but I'm attaching an outline that I prepared a couple of years ago for new orchard managers.  One person's observations and approach, and perhaps a bit out of date, but it might be of assistance for your volunteers.

John

From: masschestnutorchards-bounces at masschestnut.org [mailto:masschestnutorchards-bounces at masschestnut.org] On Behalf Of Yvonne Federowicz
Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 2010 12:03 PM
To: Jamie Donalds; Charlotte Zampini; orchard mgrlist
Subject: Re: [MassChestnutOrchards] Materials for SK/MG planting

P.s.

We also need about 260 clothespins to close the tops of the bluexes. Rudi has colored tape to mark nut types on bamboo poles.





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