I had 2200 seedlings planted last Sunday. If they make it my 4 year old and I will have a heck of a spot in a few years. It's a mixture of Sawtooth Oaks, Shumard Oaks, Cherry-bark Oaks, Water Oaks, Native Pecans and Persimmons.

Looks like a plan...

Beats the heck out of coastal!

Well done look forward to seeing it mature

Really like the sawtooth been looking into it a good bit.

2200 seedlings - how long did that take you ?


I am going to seed about 200 post oaks and a few fruit trees -
and that seem like a lot of work already

That's awesome, good luck.

You going to put some type of fence to keep the deer off of them?

I don't do the planting myself. It took the guys 2 hours. I followed them around and took pictures.

I don't have a fence around the trees. I am more worried about hogs and gophers than anything.

oh wow... I would be too.

Hopefully we don't get another good hard freeze!

with that many though the strong will survive

I'm planning to do something similar on my place. Can you post the information for the company you used and location?

Can you tell me what it is that the gentleman is sitting on & planting the saplings?
I ask because my stepfather is planting 16,000 hardwood seedlings on a reclamation property this weekend. He uses a crew from Guatamala & they do it by hand, using a very simply spade-like tool. For those who are curious, he paid about 30 cents per 18-24" sapling.

its similar to a sprigger

the 4 year old should enjoy it when he is older for sure. Those persimmons will be deadly bait.

Looks good. make sure you kill the grass around the trees. I lost half my trees when I planted in a bahiagrass pasture. Grass will suck water and nutrients. Please keep us posted on progress. Good luck.

Outstanding. This is the best time of year to plant trees and shrubs.

I would probably put a small wire fence around them until they get established. Good luck.

That field will be a deer mecca in 10-20 years

I don't know what the machine is called they used for planting but it looks like this:

http://extension.missouri.edu/p/G5009

1 week in and hogs already got to some of the seedlings. Normally the hogs don't mess with this field, but I guess the newly turned up dirt made them come around.

Id let someone run dogs out there about once every other week... it will help

just make sure they know which pastures to not drive through

You might try some electric fencing. I have used it to keep out deer from food plots with great success and know farmers that had to use it to keep wild hogs out of freshly planted corn fields.