Damaged Fruit ..........................Trees

To Phanteel and anyone else I may have disturbed by relaying something that I knew about as far as critter control goes, if I what I said bothered you I'm sorry, but I live in a farming area where plant destruction by ay animal has to be dealt with.  Today when I came home from work I found a three-year-old Black Oxford Apple Tree chewed off about 18" up the three foot tall tree.  Only a week ago I took the fencing down from around the tree, because animals generally wont bother a 3 year old tree, because the bark isn't that tender anymore.  And the bark couldn't have tasted that good to the woodchuck because after he bit the top half of the tree off he just left it laying there. The scion came from an apple tree planted in Maine in 1720.  The scion had been mated to a disease resistant Russian cultivar that took quite a bit of doing.  If I come across the woodchuck that did it its going to be lights out.  There are only so many 1720 apple trees in Maine left, but there is plenty of mangy woodchucks around and then some.


Frank O'Rourke
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