White Pine Pests

white pine range

Currant Bush

A Reminder to anyone who wants to keep their white pines healthy  - pull out all the currant bush on your property. The best time to do this is early spring. Why? Because gooseberry, one of the two plants in the RIBES family, will be the first shrub to go in leaf. It sticks out like a sore thumb in early May. By mid-summer it can be hard to see.

New Orleas to Lake of the Woods

Plenty of new business in the Lake of the Woods area for white pine planting. Looking forward to getting back and getting busy. Also want to see how the 900 or so I moved from the Allan's farm near Prawda to my new tree farm 9 miles downstream on the Birch River have fared.

If they don't like the new site, and there is a high transplant mortality, it will have been an expensive experiment. In terms of money and time.

But they needed to be moved, the spacing at the Allan's farm would have either killed them or made them too spindly.