Anything flagged in yellow is this year’s plantings propagated, 2020. Anything without yellow flag tape were 2018 bench propagations that were planted mid-summer that same year.
4x4 PT corner posts with steel T posts hammered in-between. You could do it in sections with the plan on expanding the protected zone as time, money, and energy permits.
Yea, I have a lot of things here. (66) alone are one half ‘Hetz Wintergreen’ Arborvitae and ‘Green Giant’. Those are both becoming monsters during year-15 (now). The Green Giant’s all touch at 12’ to 14’ apart and the Hetz all tough at 8’.
@Richard “with a running start…”
that would be beautiful to witness. thanks for the imagiry.
@parkwaydrive Chuchupaka is a hardy-hybrid. I don’t know how hardy yet, however but it’s ‘sort of reported’ at -22 F. A lot of the time those #'s are a bit high as to how much cold a given cultivar is actually hardy to. So far Chuchupaka has seen -9 F twice here & two different years (2020-2021 winter) & (2021-2022).
What is desired are hardy persimmons for zone 5. JT-02 is one of the zone 5 hybrid, hardy, persimmon.
Maybe he’s standing on a car, but, fun to see the loss of knowing a fence may stop a deer like they all look like from entering “paradise” to the both of us…
When living in NW California I noticed the individual tree fencing strategy worked very well. There’s no place for the deer to jump into. Though I did have to rescue a redtail hawk who got stuck inside on one occasion.
But for vegetable gardens an 8’ high fence was not enough. I swear those mule deer have built-in hydraulic pogo sticks for legs! From about 50’ away they would take a few practice vertical bounds and then clear the fence no problem.
Chances are a double fence would do it, a tall one and a small one to obstruct the landing zone. I know of an orchard with a rather short fence on one side. When I asked he pointed to the boulders on the inside side of the fence; moose could easily jump the fence but they didn’t because there was no good landing spot on the other side.
A landing side fence doesn’t need to be that robust either, only visually there. It could also be a row of bushes, or just about anything a deer world not want to risk breaking a leg on.
