Back to work
After a day playing in the snow today the weather turned warm and clear, so while the snow gently melted around us we got around to planting all the remaining fruit trees that have been darkening the front doorway. And what a collection it was. Fig, medlar, quince, the remaining apple, apricots, peaches, pears, plum, cherry, prune, nectarine, peaches, and almond… think that’s it!
A bit hard to see in this pic, but all those stakes have a tree attached somehow. Some straighter than others! We were a bit stupid though. We have some grow-tab things that we were meant to place below the roots somewhere as we went along. We remembered that at the time of planting the last tree today. Doh! We’ll have to go back and gently insert them under the surface tomorrow. At least the four we planted last time and today’s medlar have them in the appropriate place!
Now we’ll just have to patiently wait and see if they manage to sprout leaves and make and attempt at growing some fruit some time in the next few years! Though we still have a few extra patches of dead grass we sprayed that could still do with a tree or two poking out of them. If we could just work out what we’re missing!