From: dont.even@bother.com   
      
   On 8/31/2019 9:44 AM, songbird wrote:   
   > Nelly W wrote:   
   >   
   > ...   
   >> Sorry so verbose.   
   >   
   >    haha!  no problem with me.  :)  i'd rather read a long description   
   > that gives enough details than not enough.   
   >   
   >    if you are looking to encourage wild life look into   
   > some fruit and nut trees.  oaks for sure.   
   >   
   >    on the bigger scheme of things i would always go for   
   > diversity and encouraging it further.   
   >   
   >    if you want to do a food forest that can be a lot of   
   > fun.  at first you start with the nitrogen fixers and   
   > can plant veggies in between until the trees get bigger   
   > and cast too much shade.  once you have some shade then   
   > you can go for a mixed planting of other trees like   
   > removing or cutting back every other nitrogen fixer   
   > tree and replacing with selected fruit and nut trees.   
   >   
   >    bush cherries if you can find any that will work in   
   > your area.   
   >   
   >    bush blueberries are always good food for human and   
   > others.  depends upon how high up you are if it is   
   > cool enough long enough to make it worth it.   
   >   
   >    cider apples, or just random scattered apple seeds   
   > which some may be interesting or not, but animals will   
   > like the fruits in the late summer and fall, besides   
   > you might like some hard cider.   
   >   
   >    for the super long term keeping some area covered   
   > enough to grow some dense hearted long lived trees for   
   > superb musical and furniture woods.  things you would   
   > not see in your lifetime, but eventually someone would   
   > benefit.   
   >   
   >    do not burn any of the trimmings or stumps, they   
   > make good habitat and fodder for the animals and bugs   
   > and of course fungi.   
   >   
   >    wish i had enough area to do likewise...  :)   
   >   
   >   
   >    songbird   
   >   
   My uncle once tried to start a pine grove up there (in the very rocky   
   soils of Appalachian PA, btw) but it failed. I was thinking if he'd   
   planted them with some Suillus spores they might've fared better. The   
   one butternut tree that used to be up there languished for a couple   
   decades before it croaked, boy would I love to see those again. Beechnut   
   might be nice, too.   
   Most likely the trimmings will be left, except for the ones impeding   
   pathways. Eventually someone's gonna need kindling & they'll gradually   
   get picked up. Hope they don't house any chiggers, is all. The property   
   was tindered off before it came into family possession in the 60s, at   
   the time the chiggers were pretty bad but haven't encountered any for   
   many years.   
   I'm hoping for some chicken mushrooms and hen-of-the-woods to take over   
   the oak stumps (-:   
      
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