I've been in my current house on 8/10 of an acre in a subdivision for almost 18 years. I have woods on the north and west sides of my property, and the majority of the trees on the property are poplars. I decided I wanted some cedars, so I started transplanting some of the 8"-12" "volunteer" red cedar trees that popped up in the side yard, into something with a pattern. Our soil is mostly red clay, but there's some loamy soil in the woods.
I started out planting them 10 feet apart; About 5-7 years ago I cut down every other one, so that I had some rows that I could mow between more easily. So I went from 15 trees to 7-8 there, and they're now all about 12-15 feet high now. When I first planted them, I staked around them so that my son wouldn't mow them down, and the first couple of weeks I watered them a couple of times a week. After about a month, I let nature take care of them.
While I got fairly lucky with these, the ones I planted to try to stop erosion on my hillside didn't fare as well. Seems they were shaded pretty well by the oaks in the woods on the west and my poplars to their immediate east...so they apparently didn't get enough sunlight to thrive, in my non-expert opinion, because otherwise I didn't do anything differently with them than I did with the ones that lived.
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Today's Featured Article - An Old-Time Tractor Demonstration - by Kim Pratt. Sam was born in rural Kansas in 1926. His dad was a hard-working farmer and the children worked hard everyday to help ends meet. In the rural area he grew up in, the highlight of the week was Saturday when many people took a break from their work to go to town. It was on one such Saturday in the early 1940's when Sam was 16 years old that he ended up in Dennison, Kansas to watch a demonstration of a new tractor being put on by a local dealer. It was an Allis-Chalmers tractor dealership,
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