how many trees have you planted

At least 6 that I dug holes for.

I've dug holes for more than that just at this house. Have zero to show for it, though. The deer like cherry, too. :-( Damned things love rose bushes too!

Started in 1998 with 5.6 acres, about 2 acres wooded along the creek, the rest former farm field.

Ordered seedlings from the state, ~125 white pine, 25 black cherry, 25 tulip poplar, 25 rugosa rose bushes. They arrived in two letter sized manila envelopes. Most have survived, pines are about 50ft tall, 8"-12" at the base, poplars and cherries are about 45 feet tall. The roses struggled for five years and died - I planted them in too much shade. One acre became house, drive, and lawn. Stopped mowing a strip of 80 to

I made some walking trails and the place looks like the nature preserves the state runs. High school kids come by to take yearbook pictures. Township charity sold calendars with pictures of the flower field.

Saw one couple sneak back at dusk and disappear in the wild flowers. Since they did not ask permission, I did not feel obligated to warn them about the poison ivy growing under the flower leaves ;)

I stuck about 30 acorns in various spots about 7 years ago. The white oaks are now 1 to 4 feet tall.

Also planted an orchard with a dozen apple trees.

Planting trees is not hard. Just takes time and patience.

The companies I buy lumber from have planted millions of trees. They have planted far more trees for the money and effort than I ever could. I prefer to leave those things up to those who do it best and most efficiently.

I eat a lot of hamburgers, too. I have yet to raise a cow, slaughter, butcher, and grind it up either. Nor have I any intention of doing so since the people who already do it are so much better at it that I am... or ever could hope to be.

I use a lot of gasoline, too. I have never drilled for oil, nor refined it into gasoline, not will I ever do so since the people who already do it are so good and efficient at it and I could never hope to do it as good as they do and for cheaper than I could buy it at the pump.

I use a lot of nails and other fasteners, too. See where this is going?

-MIKE- wrote in news:oa56ck$kou$ snipped-for-privacy@dont-email.me:

I see where this is going, but I've got to ask... Have you ever been mad enough to chew iron and spit nails?

Might come in handy when you're inevitably 1 or 2 short.

Puckdropper

Piss on them. It is supposed to keep the deer away.

Never have but on occasion I have s*it fire to save the matches. ;~)

Only after eating my spinach. :-)

reminds me of some that i have dug holes for but would not really ever be used for wood projects

that adds at least 5 more to mmy total

Electric Comet wrote in news:oa4ogv$r4v$1 @dont-email.me:

Counting or not counting coconut palms?

John

One or two nails short of a full pound?

snipped-for-privacy@notreal.com wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:

No no no... The pound comes from the hammer!

One or two nails short of being able to complete your project! This guy Murphy was being a real jerk to The Powers That Be, refusing to use punctuation or something, and they decided to make all of humanity suffer by never having quite enough material on hand to finish their project.

This of course caused lots of backlash and The Powers That Be decided to allow some people to have just enough material, occasionally, to appear to be listening. Humans are a resourceful lot, given a big enough carrot we will leave the Earth itself in pursuit of our quest! (The quest, of course, was to fix what The Powers That Be screwed up.)

Puckdropper

I put an electric fence wire around my flowers. The first night a deer got tangled in it and tore it down. I removed the wire and left the stakes. Never had any problems after that. Apparently the news got around.

That would annoy me to, but I'd probably punch whoever tried to piss on me 8^)

-BR

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