{"id":7942,"date":"2021-10-23T18:38:40","date_gmt":"2021-10-23T22:38:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/?p=7942"},"modified":"2021-10-23T18:39:36","modified_gmt":"2021-10-23T22:39:36","slug":"trees-ill-never-climb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/?p=7942","title":{"rendered":"Trees I’ll Never Climb"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Here in Indiana you can get trees to plant for practically nothing from the Department of Natural Resources. I just checked and you can get 100 black walnut trees for 34 dollars 1<\/sup><\/a>. Of course, they are 6 inches tall. You’re buying twigs to stick in the ground.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

About 40 years ago I did just that. There was a hillside on one of our farms that had scruffy brush on it. I cut the brush down and got black walnut and black locust trees from the DNR and planted them on that hillside.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And pretty much forgot about it. Last week I thought I’d take a walk around that farm. Debbie and I had seen a puffball mushroom while hiking on an Acres property<\/a> and I wanted to see what sort of fungi 2<\/sup><\/a> were growing in my woods.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was stumbling through the woods when I looked up and thought, “what a nice walnut tree!” I stumbled a little more and there was another a nice walnut tree. After stumbling over a few more I remembered that I had planted them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Black Walnut
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I don’t remember the details of planting them, but as I walked from west to east along the hillside the black walnuts gave way to black locust trees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We have 3 acres next to our house that we recently bought. We seeded it last year to clover while we decided what do with it. After seeing those walnut and locust trees I think we may plant it to saplings. I’ll never see them tall, let alone climb them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But someone will.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\n1.<\/a> That’s 34 cents a tree. I think 40 years ago it was more like 5 cents a tree.\n<\/p>\n

\n2.<\/a>Lots of fungi.\n

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