Author Archives: Admin

We’ll keep “pumping out” tree tubes!

Posted on May 12, 2014 by Admin

A customer in Illinois emailing to update me on the progress of his plantings ended his message by saying, “Thanks, and keep pumping out those tree tubes.  They are great!” Pumping them out we are.  That last sentence sounds like … Continue reading →

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Wilson Tree Tubes: Hog proof?

Posted on May 12, 2014 by Admin

I am often asked how our tree tubes stand up to rooting by wild hogs.  I am usually a little hesitant to say that a plastic tube that weighs about 8 ounces – no matter how well constructed – can … Continue reading →

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Watch your step!

Posted on May 8, 2014 by Admin

While checking to the growth of his sawtooth oak and Chinese chestnut seedlings growing in tree tubes a customer in Florida met up with this dude: Let’s be careful out there folks!

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A Day Well Spent – Planting Trees & Installing Tree Tubes

Posted on April 25, 2014 by Admin

Email from a customer today: Spent 6 hrs planting 100 Pine trees & 25 chestnuts. The tree tubes and stakes worked great and we found direct sunlight areas to plant the chestnuts! As a bonus we had some good rains … Continue reading →

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Old Home Week

Posted on April 25, 2014 by Admin

I love spring.  There are so many – an ever increasing number – of guys (and gals) that call me every spring to order tree tubes.  (I always say I have two kinds of customers:  Repeat customers and customers who … Continue reading →

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You know, I think these “tree tubes” are going to catch on!

Posted on April 16, 2014 by Admin

Holy buckets what a spring!  Sorry for the lack of posts recently.  Spring sales started early and have been building to an avalanche (sorry for the mixed metaphor) ever since. This is my 25th spring of selling tree tubes, and … Continue reading →

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Customer invents the tree tube… then buys some

Posted on March 7, 2014 by Admin

A customer and I were laughing together the other day as he recounted how he – inadvertently – invented tree tubes… and then discovered they already exist. This gentleman in upstate New York has been planting trees – mostly apple … Continue reading →

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The browse line perfectly illustrated

Posted on March 3, 2014 by Admin

It continues to irk me that even though I have been in the tree tube business for 24 years that my customers are better at explaining their benefits than I am. I received a text over the weekend from an … Continue reading →

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Tree Tubes: No more wasted trees

Posted on February 14, 2014 by Admin

One of the sad facts of my job selling tree tubes is that I rarely talk to anyone the first time they plant trees.  Usually what happens is that they plant and fail once or twice (or more) and then … Continue reading →

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Can I use tree tubes on shrubs? Yes!

Posted on January 16, 2014 by Admin

Every spring I get asked dozens of times if tree tubes work on shrubs planted as small seedlings.  Absolutely!  Here’s the email I sent to a customer this morning who asked that exact question: Yes, I have a lot of … Continue reading →

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