Weather To Wrap

The last week has been dry, giving me an opportunity to use the Gator to  get up the hill and into the forest. I have been spending stolen time, just fragments here and there between my other chores, to get working on the idea of using blackberry vines to protect the mesh cages and bamboo stakes that are around the cedar seedlings.

I have to say that I am not spending quality time when using the prickly vines, but I am pleased with how the seedlings are looking and am interested to see if this helps even a little bit to keep browsers from tearing the bamboo and mesh cages off the tender seedlings.

We have several small areas that had been planted and caged, it takes time to go from one site to the next. I am getting a close up look at the damage that many of the trees have experienced since our fall time when we monitored the sites every day.

As of today, I have righted about half of the cages that were disturbed throughout the winter, these are the ones that I have been focused on to add the berry vines. During the summer and fall, I hope to add more vines to the ones that I haven’t touched yet in an effort to avoid more damage next winter.

If I can keep these trees growing a couple more years and get them above the browse line, I should be able to eventually get a good crow of cedar trees for the effort.

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