Nice spot to ambush a deer!
Late Hard Frost
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338 Bear Hunter
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I can never be quite sure since my hunting clothes are about 50% Permethrin by weight, but I noticed a sharply lower tick count so far for turkey. Although they were bad one day last weekend, they were non-existent this morning (unfortunately, so were the turkeys).
Browseline
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The three 100 plus year-old trees out in my field look good. One is a Blue Pearmain which mostly blossomed after the frost and I don't know what the others are. The Blue Pearmain has more blossoms this year than I can remember in the past. My other trees in the back dooryard all have some blossoms that are brown and some that are just blossoming. The pear tree has a lot of tiny pears (1/4 inch long) as that always blossoms well before the apple trees do. The leaves on all the oak trees are wilted, hanging down and dried up. All the maple and apple leaves seem to be fine. Beech leaves are wilted also. Most of my ash trees are dead from the Emerald Ash Borer. About a dozen are 14 to 18" in diameter. A few I'll cut for firewood, but most are on a steep bank and I don't have the equipment to pull them out. I use a maul to split them. The four Dunstan Chestnut trees are just starting to leaf out now so no harm to them. Every year they hold most of their leaves all winter and spring until the new ones come out. Both pictures are of the Blue Pearmain which is the tree on the right in the picture.
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Here in northern VT at 2200’ it was 21 Thursday morning. Cold, but dry. No frost to speak of on roofs, grass or the dooryard. Just a slight layer on the truck windshield. That and our apple trees haven’t yet blossomed up here have me thinking we’ll be ok.
NH Mountains
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Here is a frost damage chart for apples but, there are variables as to wind, how long the cold sits, variety of apple, etc.
