Well Tanis, that gets me thinking, I have a roll of root grafting tape, I
could dig up one damaged evans and perhaps get a pile of grafts out of the
roots, I recall hearing that evans aren't real compatable to other prunus so
this would solve that problem. And the other plants can recover by root
sprouting as they will. I am intrigued by Dean's comment about cutting
saskatoons to the ground and thus making a mini forest out of one plant. My
thinking was that I need to get the stems up over 1" dia. quickly to avoid
the voles by bark thickness.
I also had a patch of dolgo crabs I was growing from seed for rootstock,
about 150 quite close together like a forest, and the voles got every single
one, cutting many off completely at ground level. I had to be careful
digging because so many didn't show above ground level anymore! I call 'em
micro beavers.
Thanks, Del
>What about digging up some roots and grafting these onto the
>hardwood cuttings? I vaguely recall reading something about this
>in a 'Pomona', probably pre- online archive days. I don't recall
>what the success rate was.
>