Good luck with yer paw paws. From what I’ve read on here, is that they are finicky plants, and you need to be more diligent about growing them than other fruit trees. There are others on here who have far more knowledge about them than me.
I never knew what they were until I moved up here. My wife says there’s supposedly some wild specimens around here, but we haven’t seen any. I thought they were more of a southern thing, but I never heard of them while growing up in OK.
Your field looks like mine, it’s real tempting to want to fill up all that empty space isn’t it? I put 8 bare root pecans in my pasture last year, but two bit the dust over the summer. From what I’ve read on here, bare root pecans have a higher failure rate than regular fruit trees. But, we still got 6 left, and we’ll see how they handle our winter.
We’re also getting some snow, coming down pretty heavy, but it’s still too warm to stick yet.