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  • From: "Ernest Plutko" <ernestplutko@wiktel.com>
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  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Transplanting Trees and Shrubs
  • Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2011 19:46:06 -0500

What kind of tubes?

---- Original Message ----
From: mariaschu@vtlink.net
To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Transplanting Trees and Shrubs
Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2011 17:42:05 -0400

>Do you keep the tubes on in the summer? I lost around 15 carmine
>jewels this spring to voles. Then I put tubes around the survivors
>and haven't lost anymore-- but it doesn't seem like the greatest
>thing
>to have tubes around them all summer.
>
>Maria
>
>On Aug 18, 2011, at 2:27 PM, mIEKAL aND wrote:
>
>> Mine were almost exclusively right at ground level, both the top of
>> roots & the base of the truck. Very few had tunneling down into
>the
>> ground. The interesting thing with the Nanking cherries is it
>> completely killed about 30 of them & the other 100 or so eventually
>> gained enough momentum to grow back, tho they essentially lost a
>year
>> of growth.
>>
>> I've also heard mothballs into tree tubes further discourages
>> predation so I may give that a try this winter.
>>
>> ~mIEKAL
>>
>> On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 1:22 PM, Bob Hartman
><hartmansfruit@msn.com>
>> wrote:
>>> mIEKAL,
>>>
>>> My losses from the voles here come from them eating all the roots
>
>>> off. I've
>>> had tree where above the ground the tree is whole. The only
>>> problem you see
>>> during the winter time is that the tree is tipped over unless it
>is
>>> staked.
>>> I've had it where I pull the tree out of the ground and it is like
>
>>> the tree
>>> was put into a pencil sharpener. All the roots have been chewed
>>> off. Are
>>> you saying all your chews are above ground? I've had some chews
>>> above
>>> ground but 95-99% are below ground level.
>>>
>>> Bob
>>> Western Washington
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