“Keep a journal or something, Mrs. Ranger, and you can regale us with your adventures!”
LOL! Well here’s my first entry:
Thank goodness I was sitting down when I started making calls to the local nurseries up here! $75-90 EACH for a 4-5” spruce????
Well, scratch *that* plan. ;) Plan B: Call local nurseries when I go down home and pray the difference in the general “cost of living” applies. Plan C: switch to “seedlings”, which *are* in our price range, but will take a few years longer to grow large enough to provide the privacy we were hoping for.
Thank goodness our expectations are “flexible”. :)
I guess flexibility is the key in survival situations! And you get to practice it already.
I notice you already call Alabama ‘home’ ;)
We’ve planted numerous trees on numerous properties to separate us from neighbors and have always gotten the little ones in 1 gallon containers. With a fast-growing tree, it’ll just take a year or so to catch up. (Our current crop is California Pepper trees and the new baby planted last summer is already half the size of the more mature ones.) I’m frugal first and foremost ;)
I’d love to get some info on Alabama when you have the time. We are looking into retirement/bug out places back east and are considering anywhere with relatively cheap houses on acreage and that’s pretty.
Your should have a state tree nursery, where $45-50 can buy houndreds of trees. If not order them from a local state....Ours is a couple of miles from our house....as are many farms where produce can be purchased right out of the field.
Thank goodness I was sitting down when I started making calls to the local nurseries up here! $75-90 EACH for a 4-5” spruce????<<<
I meant to suggest you ask Delawhere about his hybrid Popular trees, for they grow fast and are good firewood too.