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do you have a preferance for not removing the pine trees?
ncb

Quoting BekeeprTop@aol.com:

> Well here's my update to my plant-under-red-pines challenge:
>
> 1] the first limbs of the red pine have become quite elevated over the 
> years,
> in fact its up to 10' to the first limbs of the red pines, which might be
> [wild guess] 25' tall.
>
> 2] a wild grape is all the way to the top.   I will transplant a grape in
> under one of the climbing wild vines, offering the wild vine for the 
> domestic
> vine to climb up.  To keep the fruit in reach, I will prune the domestic 
> vine
> at
> 6' or 10' each year.
>
> 3] Since I have 2-yr mulberries once transplanted available, I will
> transplant two of these as well.   These will not grow in full shade.  There
> clearlly
> is some light making it through to this area, and as said the red pines have
> abandoned covering the ground [why I don't know, many trees would not 
> concede
> light at their feet].
>
> 4] I may even plant a mulberry and a grape into the same hole as time to
> clear and dig is so rare.    Two things planted in the same time.
>
> 5] The strawberries currently in this same area under these 2 red pine need
> to move out.  I'm considering now the front of the house, though the front 
> is
> not a sure thing, since a large pecan is offset in the front, but there's no
> point leaving the strawberries where they are not thriving.
>
> This experience is making me reconsider cutting down a much longer line of
> red pines on the other side of the house, if they will clear out underneath
> perhaps they can be tolerated for a few more years.  I dunno if reds have 
> any
> value at the saw mill.
> Thanks for all your inputs.
> Charlie Paradise, Massachusetts
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