The Cheapest Food Plot You'll Ever Plant! Order Your Fruit Bearing Trees for Next Year Now!!

I know what you're thinking..."Order trees for next year, he must mean this spring?".  Nope, I mean the year 2011!  When it comes to fruit tree planting, we are blessed to work with a company that is kind enough to make arrangements to keep potted plants aside for us to make it easy for landowners to plant themselves!  By ordering now for next year, the plants will be from 5 to 7 foot tall and have fruit the first year you put them in the ground!

Planting apple trees from bare root stock can take years to begin to produce, and many of our clients and landowners don't want to wait 10 years for fruit to be produced.  Nor do we! The trees come to us in pots that contain the soil and are ready to be planted instantly.  All you'll need is a shovel and fertilizer spikes and you've got instant fruit trees!  Additionally, it's wise to also contain the trees with some type of fencing to keep your bucks from rubbing the trees in the fall.  Simple cattle panels will work as do rolls of fencing you can get from any farm coop store.  The trees come with protective wraps to prevent rabbits from chewing the bark as well that are already installed.

Where to plant the trees is often a bigger issue.  You want to make sure you plant them in a well drained area.  This is true for basically all the fruit trees you should be planting for wildlife.  Fruit trees also need plenty of sunshine, although some varieties will do well in timber areas, it's generally only under an open canopy to allow adequate sunlight to reach the tree to reach it's maximum production rates each year.  Also, you'll want to postition those trees with stand placement in mind.  I've been on more than one farm where landowners have been savvy enough to know that fruit trees are an incredible asset, but did not use enough foresight to plant them near any suitable trees for a stand location!  The power of fruit trees in areas such as Northern Missouri and Southern Iowa where there are not a lot of orchards is absolutely incredible!  But, only if they are located properly in regards to stand positions and in a manner that allows them to work harmoniously with the other important habitat elements on the farm.

When placing your order through us, you'll also be assured that your fruit drop rates are orchestrated perfectly by species and that you have an appropriate number of pollenator trees in each orchard.  Meaning, when we order your trees, we make sure that for the number of trees you have in each grove, you have an adequate assurance that your trees will be pollenated even if you lost a tree or two for any reason due to wildlife or disease reasons.  Without a pollenator tree, you likely will not have any fruit unless there are other fruit trees in the immediate vacinity.  The drop rates are important to ensuring that fruit is hitting the ground as long as possible during the hunting season, giving you more opportunities over a longer time period to capitolize on that food source.  Those drop rates, or fruit maturity rates, are dependent on mostly the species of fruit that your tree produces.  Specifically with apple trees.  Jonagold apples mature and fall at a different time frame of the year as what red delicious do, which is different than the drop times for honey crisp for example.

Apple, pear, and other fruit trees are, pound for pound, one of the best improvements you can make to a property with the least amount of work.  The only necessary maintenance is pretty minimal compared to that of a food plot.  And, I'm not so sure that the drive for a whitetail to get to a freshly dropped honeycrisp apple or bartlett pear isn't bigger than the desire to get to a fresh cut alfalfa field!  For well under $100 per tree including fencing, posts, tiedowns, and fertilizer, you can have one of the ultimate food sources a whitetail could crave and the best part is that you only have to plant it once for years to come!  If you plan on owning your property for 20 years, that's less than $5 per year!!  And, the value of farms that we sell with established small orchards for hunting purposes clearly adds to the desirability and often the bottom line of the purchase price of the farm when it's sold.  So, don't be afraid to call or email us to discuss placing an order for your farm and increase your close range opportunties at whitetails today!

For ordering, contact me, Rod White, at 319-217-0392 or shoot me an email at rwhite@landandgame.com!  Remember - All potted varieties must be ordered now for 2011!