Bell It’s been a bad year for a lot of garden crops for me – if the deer can eat they have – but for fruit and nuts it’s been extraordinary – heavy peaches, heavy apples, heavy walnuts. And now the beechnuts are starting to drop to the forest floor, and it’s a superb year for […]
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Harvesting Beechnuts.
12-Oct-13Beech Bark Disease.
14-Feb-13Kasongo-Lunda The bark of beech is famously smooth, providing a space for people to carve their initials. But most beech in the Northeast, and almost all in the Catskills, is infected with beech bark disease, an imported European pathogen to which the American species has no resistance. The young trees grow fine, until they reach about […]