daugen
Epic Contributor
31 going up to 55 today with morning rain. Should start raining just when buyer is hooking up the hitch to my trailer.
Cut up the brownies this morning, was good not to eat any, put them in Tupperware and turned up the heat in the trailer.
Before they get here I'm taking my little electric heater out. I gave them plenty of free things but that heater is going back in my house where it came from. I told them to buy two...why use your own propane when you can heat with the campground's electricity? They sure agreed.
Got very lucky with neighbor, his fire training class was cancelled for today so he can come over and help me mount the phd on the Kubota.
Then I drill about ten holes and plant four Asian pears, red buds, dogwoods, lilacs and river birch. None of these were planned, just using up a store credit for pecan trees that died the first year, I believe because they were frozen in transit last year. This year all trees were nicely boxed and looked great. Small two to three foot bare root trees, some larger, not hard to plant, but I like big water retention rings and the phd makes those just by drilling the holes.
I've already planted over a hundred trees here, almost all along the property line to block the neighbors.
These trees are for the main lawn area, and yeah, each additional one is another to trim around.
So I have to really think about how this will all look, like a painter with a canvas. I think redbuds in a line, dogwoods in a triangle, river birch in a corner, and none can block the view of the fruit orchard, since when that blooms, it's too nice a view. I printed out pictures of the grown trees so I can stand outside and try to visualize all this ten years from now.
Yesterday I planted a green smoke tree and a Chinese fringe tree along the side of the paddock area facing my fireman neighbor. Those trees are supposed to be really colorful, hope there's enough light in there, partial shade. Always a battle to get sunlight when you have a lot of trees around. Morning sun, afternoon sun, how much of each.
Oh, I missed the Smyrna quince tree. Somebody someday will make quince jam from this tree.
This is definitely it for tree planting this year, now to concentrate on the garden. I got the tops of the rows pulverized yesterday after making another pass with the super A. I could do this whole garden with the Gravely pulling the tiller, but doing it with the tractor was more fun.
Until it started to smoke...hmmm.
Cut up the brownies this morning, was good not to eat any, put them in Tupperware and turned up the heat in the trailer.
Before they get here I'm taking my little electric heater out. I gave them plenty of free things but that heater is going back in my house where it came from. I told them to buy two...why use your own propane when you can heat with the campground's electricity? They sure agreed.
Got very lucky with neighbor, his fire training class was cancelled for today so he can come over and help me mount the phd on the Kubota.
Then I drill about ten holes and plant four Asian pears, red buds, dogwoods, lilacs and river birch. None of these were planned, just using up a store credit for pecan trees that died the first year, I believe because they were frozen in transit last year. This year all trees were nicely boxed and looked great. Small two to three foot bare root trees, some larger, not hard to plant, but I like big water retention rings and the phd makes those just by drilling the holes.
I've already planted over a hundred trees here, almost all along the property line to block the neighbors.
These trees are for the main lawn area, and yeah, each additional one is another to trim around.
So I have to really think about how this will all look, like a painter with a canvas. I think redbuds in a line, dogwoods in a triangle, river birch in a corner, and none can block the view of the fruit orchard, since when that blooms, it's too nice a view. I printed out pictures of the grown trees so I can stand outside and try to visualize all this ten years from now.
Yesterday I planted a green smoke tree and a Chinese fringe tree along the side of the paddock area facing my fireman neighbor. Those trees are supposed to be really colorful, hope there's enough light in there, partial shade. Always a battle to get sunlight when you have a lot of trees around. Morning sun, afternoon sun, how much of each.
Oh, I missed the Smyrna quince tree. Somebody someday will make quince jam from this tree.
This is definitely it for tree planting this year, now to concentrate on the garden. I got the tops of the rows pulverized yesterday after making another pass with the super A. I could do this whole garden with the Gravely pulling the tiller, but doing it with the tractor was more fun.
Until it started to smoke...hmmm.
