Commented: How can I keep the raccoons away from my apple tree?down south you have three choices to keep racoons away
1- shoot them
2- plan way more than you need leaving enough for racoons and other critters
3- find a dog or three bad enough to whip a wild coon...
Commented: i need huge treesIf it were me, I'd cover the whole place with a mix of tulip poplars, various native oaks and try some dawn redwoods (Metasequoia) near any wet spots you find. I'd mix in all sorts of evergreens nativ...
Commented: Would you ever grow a callery pear?It's too late to remove their fixation on that survivor tree, although three other survivor trees were not Callery but Little-Leaf Lindens , Tilia cordata.
