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Fri, Oct 17, 14 at 8:18
| Received my order of 25 wild pears from Oikos yesterday. They looked pretty good and I will give you an update as they grow out. The total with shipping was around $48. If you are interested in growing some diversity for the wildlife like I am or maybe you want to grow them out and see what you have and graft over the bad ones they would be good for that to. I consider them target fruit to plant around the pond. A raccoon or deer with a full belly is not very motivated to leave their pears and water close by to come and steal some of mine. Anyone else grow target fruit? I also grow mulberries so my Bblackberry, raspberry, currant and cherry crop is safe. Some animal (im assuming)liberated 3 of my Asian pears this year and 3 of my apples of new varieties. I felt it was time to plant something to keep them busy. I've never had much luck with fall planting but these are tough wild trees so I sure hope they make it. http://www.oikostreecrops.com/Edible-Fruits/Wild-Pears/ECOS-Pear/p-68-87-134/ |
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| I plan on doing the same thing. I have 56 acres and plenty of creek beds running through my property. I want to plant several types of trees for the wildlife to eat. I have some wild plums I am getting from a neighbor to get them started. I figure I will get some for jelly and let the wildlife have the rest. My cattle used to love the wild plum thickets. They would get in them in the winter to stay warm as well as eat the plums. |
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| Are they red American plums? Here is another way to get a bunch for cheap http://www.lawyernursery.com/productinfo.aspx?productSpecies=Prunus americana.&categoryid=39 http://www.byronnursery.com/BareRootPlants2.html Wholesale is the way to go when your doing large farm planting |
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| The plums are Chickasaw ones. They will sucker out and form large thickets. The plums are about the size of a ping pong ball but they make excellent jelly |
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| Those sound like good sized plums for thicket forming. I don't see how you could go wrong with those. |
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