November 6-8, 2008 Visit – Close up for the winter
On this visit, I gathered about 400 walnuts and planted these in the area above the pond. It will be interesting to see if this succeeds and if the walnut seedlings can compete with the golden rod and other old field plants. The walnut trees have produced another large crop this year, but the hickories, beeches and oaks are very sparse.
I am not willing to brush hog and apply herbicides, so any trees I plant have to compete with the existing growth.
I also planted about 100 black willow cuttings in areas where the canary reed grass is dominant. I am using a dibble bar to make 1/2 diameter by 18 inch deep holes and then driving the 18 inch cutting into the hole until about 6 inch is exposed.
Most trees have dropped their leaves with the exception of sycamores, oaks, and autumn olive. The oak leaves are unusually intensively red this year.
The water level in the pond is down just a bit from the last visit and the streams have just a little water.
