To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Transplanting Trees and Shrubs
Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2011 13:27:37 -0500
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