On Thu, 10 Apr 2008 08:29:14 -0400, "Eisboch" wrote:


"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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On Thu, 10 Apr 2008 05:58:52 -0500, wrote:

On Wed, 09 Apr 2008 23:35:00 +0000, Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:

This tree has been annoying me for a year.

I'm normally a tree loving kind of guy, but losing that tree is quite an
improvement.

Yeah - I was surprised at how much more open it looks now.

Then again, I didn't expect half again growth in one year. Although I
was researching this type of pine and I guess it does that - one
minute it's six foot tall and well shaped and the next it's tree gone
wild.

Next up - a 60 foot chestnut.

Maybe next year. :)

The house we moved from 7 years ago (now my daughter's house) is next to
some old cranberry bogs that had not been used for years. About 10 years
ago I was walking on the bog and plucked about 6 little pine tree saplings
that were only as high as my knees. The "trunks" were about half the
diameter of my little finger. Just for kicks, I dug shallow holes on the
side of the property line, planted them and forgot about them.

They are all about 50 feet tall now.

Part of it has to do with the soil I think. Here at Rancho El Nut
Case, I can grow hemlocks like there is no tomorrow. Pine trees not
so much. Red oak trees double the height and girth of white oak trees
and scrub oak - well, let's just say that I never lack for fire wood.

I've had my "forest" logged twice in the 30 years we've been here and
to look at it, you would never know it. Mostly red oak, some white
and maple trees - although the maple trees are getting a little long
in the tooth and might need to be removed and replaced.

I don't know if I told you, but we have an original "charter" oak here
in town and it's enourmous. It was planted in 1671 - 337 years old.

Amazing.