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I know there are plenty of redbuds around me but they're hard to spot right now. Not for long though. They sound tricky. Arbor Day Foundation sells 3-4' bare root trees for $8/ea if you buy a 10 pack. Food trees come first.

They sell chestnut trees to hunters for their food plots and call them the #1 food source to attract deer. I'm planning on using tree tubes which will prevent small critter damage. I can do a double row deer fence aka 3D fence around all. Deer freak out about the depth

Premiere Fence recommends 34" high single wire and the double at 20" and 48" high with 3 foot between fences. Should be white poly wire that they can see.

I've got a 80' x 80' six strand electric fenced area that the goats started in. Just need to move the whole thing over to go around the tunnel plus the spot where the hazelnuts and paw paws will be. Swap the high tensile wire for white poly wire and put a single perimeter white poly wire around it. I've got the posts, insulators and just need a $50 roll of braided poly wire.

There will be 30 foot or so between the tunnel and trees which leaves room for some rows outside the tunnel for veggies like potatoes that would take up too much space in there. The neighbor has four new puppies, two of which look like they'll be big, like Great Pyrenees size big. The six strand will keep them out so they don't dig holes in a nice fluffy bed to lay in.

Actually the town I work in is the county seat but it's still just a small town. Two tire shops and neither like it when you bring your own brand new tires for them to install. They're losing out in the markup when you buy from them which is understandable. I paid $400 for these new tires and $360 for the machine. They probably would have charged about $7-800 for the same tires including installation.

I just like to DIY as much as possible. Last set I had put on, I went there at 10am and they said 1pm so I had to kill some time. Then it took over an hour. The helper put one wheel back on and I could see/hear the inconsistency when he tightened the lug nuts with the impact gun. When I got home, I checked them. Two of them I had to use a 3 foot pipe on a breaker bar to loosen, two were about right and one was barely tight. It was basically an all day affair and I had to check all the lug nuts to make sure I could loosen them on the road if I had a flat and needed to put the spare on.

I had the other shop put my rear tires on the tractor rims. I didn't notice it at the time, probably because it's a dark little place, but he put one on backwards. There's a huge arrow on the tire showing which direction it should go. He set me up with two left tires. Can you imagine a tire shop not having a light over the tire machine?

My dad loved redbuds - in the Spring, when traveling the interstate, there were areas at woods edge that were almost solid redbuds in bloom - very beautiful.

So dad bought 6 redbuds at a nearby nursery. He was physically unable to plant them so it was my job to get them in the ground. I just planted a 3 gallon lilac bush this fall & the redbuds were in much larger pots. It was quite an effort to get them planted.

The redbuds thrived and are beautiful in the spring - bees & butterflies love the blooms. The leaves go yellow in the fall. The only thing I truly dislike about them are the seed pods ... the trees are loaded. The squirrels leave them alone as do the birds. One year, we had a groundhog who climbed a tree to eat pods at least once. Whatever dad got, they were not the wild, self-seeding redbuds because the seeds never sprouted so they must have been sterile. If the seed pods had been viable, we would have had redbuds everywhere.

Here is a good article on redbuds & how to propogste from seeds, if you can find some:

Complete guide to Redbud Tree – What you NEED to know
https://growitbuildit.com/eastern-redbud-tree-cercis-canadensis/

PS - I like that 3D fence - might have to try it this year when I have a garden on the new property for the first time.