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<blockquote data-quote="Tymurrey" data-source="post: 324525" data-attributes="member: 859">Trees are definitely a love hate relationship with me.&nbsp; Hate the cost in the spring of the replants and all the crap that kills them like winter burn, fire blight, drought, rodents, deer, and just about anything else.&nbsp; It seems like everything is out to get the trees if they aren't planted in a yard or somewhere you can babysit them.&nbsp; I have had good luck with cedars and junipers planted in the pasture with no other work than just sticking them in the ground but they grow real slow and the deer decide to rub all the branches off when they get about waist high.&nbsp; I would guess i have about 50% survival rate on them doing that.&nbsp; The areas where i've put fabric down increases the survival rate substantially but the deer still raise hell with anything that isn't a conifer.&nbsp; Tubes can help a lot but on a year like this i think they hurt me because they got the trees to break dormancy early with the early warm weather we had then we had that late cold snap.&nbsp; Has anyone tried scalping for planting trees.&nbsp; I have some areas i wouldn't mind putting some more trees in but i don't want to deal with fabric again but would like to give them a head start with no grass competition.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Tymurrey, post: 324525, member: 859"] Trees are definitely a love hate relationship with me. Hate the cost in the spring of the replants and all the crap that kills them like winter burn, fire blight, drought, rodents, deer, and just about anything else. It seems like everything is out to get the trees if they aren't planted in a yard or somewhere you can babysit them. I have had good luck with cedars and junipers planted in the pasture with no other work than just sticking them in the ground but they grow real slow and the deer decide to rub all the branches off when they get about waist high. I would guess i have about 50% survival rate on them doing that. The areas where i've put fabric down increases the survival rate substantially but the deer still raise hell with anything that isn't a conifer. Tubes can help a lot but on a year like this i think they hurt me because they got the trees to break dormancy early with the early warm weather we had then we had that late cold snap. Has anyone tried scalping for planting trees. I have some areas i wouldn't mind putting some more trees in but i don't want to deal with fabric again but would like to give them a head start with no grass competition. [/QUOTE]

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