Recent content by M. Frary

Cut it back hard in the spring. Siberia elms will push buds out of the trunk. Just watch for it trying to push them out right underneath existing branches. It will abandon them for the new ones.

Thank you guys for the condolences. A part of me went with him. But I still have a part of him with me. He was my 3rd GSD and by far the one with the most personality. And love. The way I look at is if they take a part of me with them but they leave a part of them with me I'll be more dog than...

I lost Rupert on Monday. We went for our ride and walk,got home and he just went and laid down. Got him to go out but he could hardly stand. I rushed him to his Vet. After they XRayed him and the Vet came in I could tell from the look on his face. Rupert had a tumor on his spleen(unbeknownst to...

It's a disease called oak wilt. And it travels through root grafts underground.

Everything. Cutting lots of oak right now because they're all dying of oak wilt. Plantation pine sucks to cut if it isn't being clear cut. Lots of backing down rows. The funnest trees to cut down are the huge ones that it can't do in one cut. Go round the front,dive the saw in then go around...

Not anymore. I used to do line clearance. Did it for 20 years. Now I operate a feller buncher for a logging company. Clear 3 to 5 acres a day.

That's exactly what I do for a living.

Buy 'em.

When you always have a root tamer shovel and nursery pots in the back of your car.

All of mine now go in crates made of 1/4" hardware cloth to keep the V C out. Bonsai jail.

I'm assuming you've heard of oak wilt. It's quite bad around here. We're noticing that as the disease progresses through tracts of red oak that the ones outside of affected areas are pushing dormant buds along the trunks. Being loggers we aren't sure if these trees are just in the beginning...

And chops. It cuts through a 22" diameter tree in less than a second.

If they do, me and my toy here are the stuff of nightmares.

Get some seeds. Grow your own. You'll be shocked at how fast they grow.

Yikes!