I will have to build up the dam on this vernal pond. The water is escaping through the goat pasture.
Tag Archives: Red Elm
Hinge Cutting Trees
Hinge cutting trees can offer more wildlife habitat where there was little before. I also did this in the woods and opened up the canopy for more young growth in the woods. I cut this Elm tree down, but let it stay attached to the trunk, good example of a hinge cut.
Dutch Elm Disease Resistance
There are a couple Red Elms(Ulmus rubra) over 3 feet in diameter that I have wanted to graft and create new ones. The reason being that they may have some DED resistance since elms have been dying around them for decades. Currently I am trying to graft them on Siberian Elm(Ulmus pumila) rootstock. Siberian Elm […]
Green King Elm Fast Shade
The Green King Elm has grown very fast for the last few years. This hybrid tree is very fast growing shade for the goats.
Hinge Cutting Elm
There is an elm tree where I plan to plant fruit trees. Instead of killing it, I did a hinge cut on it. Then it can stay alive and give a little wildlife cover.
Goat Elm
There is a large Red Elm(Ulmus rubra) in the goat pasture. It is around 10 feet in circumference. There was another large elm by this elm tree that was taller, but it died from Dutch Elm Disease in the early 1990’s.
Red Elm, Slippery Elm, Ulmus rubra…whatever name you want to call it, it is going to die!
During my childhood, I would come across many large trunks of trees that were long dead. I always thought they were cottonwood trees because that is the common big tree on our place nowadays. I was wrong. Dutch Elm Disease swept through this area in the 1970’s, and with it, most of the large American […]