My Last Surviving......

[Bright Raven]

Pawpaw Tree.

I have been protecting three pawpaw patches since I owned the farm. I don't have a clue as to what has killed them. Yesterday, I was on the back property line where the last pawpaw patch stands. It was the best patch. Only one tree that is right on the property line has survived. This is the last live pawpaw tree left on the farm.

 

[Jeanne - Simme Valley]

That sucks. My farm in Kansas was loaded with them along a creek bottom. Loved the fruit. They generally only had fruit every other year.
When I was a kid, we used to sing "picking up PawPaws and putting in a basket". I had no clue what a PawPaw was!

 

[TennesseeTuxedo]

No mo pickled pawpaws.

 

[Bright Raven]

I have used this little cool spell to do a lot of cutting dead trees. All the White Ash are gone. I cut some dead Hackberry and it was revealed when sawing them up that they had been hammered by wood borers. I was aware that White Ash were susceptible to borers but I didn't know they were hitting the Hackberry. The woods in this part of Kentucky are not healthy. It is not due to drought.

 

[TennesseeTuxedo]

Were logging our farm Raven. I’m trying to stay ahead of these blights and bugs.

 

[Nesikep]

around here it's the pine and fir that are getting hit with beetles.. the bush is kinda ugly with fallen and naked trees.. Drought may have a little to do wtih it here.. This year has been exceptionally wet though and I see TONS of fir trees sprouting (even found 2 in my hayfield!) If next year is a bit wetter they might actually get established

 

[Bright Raven]

Were logging our farm Raven. I’m trying to stay ahead of these blights and bugs.

The blights and bugs are hitting everything. My issue with logging is the damage they do to the ground for nothing more than a few hundred bucks. And lots of these guys never pay up.

 

[Caustic Burno]

Pawpaw Tree.

I have been protecting three pawpaw patches since I owned the farm. I don't have a clue as to what has killed them. Yesterday, I was on the back property line where the last pawpaw patch stands. It was the best patch. Only one tree that is right on the property line has survived. This is the last live pawpaw tree left on the farm.

Bob Wells nursery in Lindale Texas has some if you get to looking for some.

 

[Jeanne - Simme Valley]

Get the Amish to drag out your logs!

 

[Bright Raven]

Get the Amish to drag out your logs!

I only have about 8 acres of woods in total in three areas which I left for habitat when I was clearing the farm. It would be far more trouble than it is worth to log it.

 

[jltrent]

Pawpaws about gone around here also as maybe 30-40 years ago they were prevalent. The trees do not look healthy around here either. With the destruction of the Amazon, bugs, disease, drought one wonders in another 20 years what will be left. It makes me sad and being around some of these youth makes me sad also as they will see it rough.

 

[littletom]

Its the same here lots and lots of dead trees. We sold and traded some a few years ago. Some we have sawed for our on use. Few band mills around. Some just go back into the ground. It's on high ground low ground not sure on the whys.

 

[Caustic Burno]

Its the same here lots and lots of dead trees. We sold and traded some a few years ago. Some we have sawed for our on use. Few band mills around. Some just go back into the ground. It's on high ground low ground not sure on the whys.

I know where there are five chinquapin trees left in this part of the world.
Three of them are behind the house.

 

[alisonb]

Looks like there is not enough photosynthesis going on there(from the photos). Tall and spindly with far apart internodes and light colored leaves is usually a good indication. An adult tree will require full sun. You will know better as you see it every day ;-)

 

[Bestoutwest]

We've got issues with elm around here bad. They're dying left and right.

 

[Bigfoot]

My place needs logged bad. I just do not want the mess. I guess Ill keep letting them die. and push the ones that fall in the pasture back in the woods.

 

[jschoolcraft86]

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Live oaks are going down all around me. I was hoping to build a treehouse masters style treehouse in this stand but not anymore.

 

[farmerjan]

Emerald ash borer is devastating the ash here. Many are trying to log them before they die and are of little value. Elms are pretty non existent here. Have had some pine problems, think it is a blister? or maybe a rust disease. Weather has been very good for logging overall this year. But yeah, it is going to be very "open" between the trees dying and those logged off.

 

[farmerjan]

The problem with just letting them die, is the pest doesn't stop. When the trees are logged off, it tends to remove the host treee for whatever pest and helps to slow down/stop the life cycle of that pest. Listened to a talk on it a little while back, and they suggested logging off any sections that are affected to stop the spread of the pest. That is why a friend went and did his ash this winter. Saw some damage, and went through and cut down anything that was a host to the em ash borer. We'll see if it did what he wanted. At least he got some money out of them and the loggers that did his left it in very good condition.