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Growing => Fruit => Topic started by: Big Light on May 11, 2014, 08:55:19 pm

Title: Sundays toil over - Orchard planted :0)
Post by: Big Light on May 11, 2014, 08:55:19 pm

23 trees  :tree: :tree: :tree: :tree: :tree: :tree: - apples, pears, plums and cherries planted in the rain

With Auraucana giving seal of approval!

Title: Re: Sundays toil over - Orchard planted :0)
Post by: Mammyshaz on May 11, 2014, 10:32:21 pm

Haha,great piccie.looks like your araucana is counting trees to check your figures  :roflanim:

Title: Re: Sundays toil over - Orchard planted :0)
Post by: Lesley Silvester on May 11, 2014, 11:06:24 pm

Well done.  :thumbsup:  Looking good.

Title: Re: Sundays toil over - Orchard planted :0)
Post by: HesterF on May 12, 2014, 12:29:56 am

Looks fab - easier planting now than with frozen ground but looks like they're already in leaf, were they in pots?

We've got 1950 vines going in tomorrow (actually today looking at the time). A French team is doing the planting (in two hours with a fancy machine) but we then have to lay the weed mats, put on the canes, ties and rabbit guards manually. That'll be me for a few days then (plus a few friends).

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Title: Re: Sundays toil over - Orchard planted :0)
Post by: Big Light on May 12, 2014, 06:00:14 am

Bought bare rooted but potted up first till fencing etc had been completed