Yesterday Wolfe and I started planting our apple orchard. We had a little difficulty starting because we were also dog sitting my sisters dog Tia. We got a system down in time and by the end of the we got 40 trees planted. Yesterday we did Lodi and Honey Crisp. Today we should get to [...]
Archive for April, 2009
Planting Orchard
Posted in Gardening on April 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Hops and Wassail
Posted in Gardening on April 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This last Thursday three more hop vines were planted in the yard so we currently have seven different varieties planted: Perle, Nugget, Sterling, Magnum, Fuggle, and Northern Brewer and Cascade that we planted last year. We purchased top soil from Jungs and planted them in big mounds on some fence that gets a lot of [...]
Young Garden
Posted in Gardening on April 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Young Compost Pile
Posted in Gardening on April 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Young Compost Pile
Originally uploaded by badcherry
Spring Greens
Posted in Gardening on April 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
We planted a spring garden about 2 weeks ago and it is sprouting nicely. Last year at this time is was an unfertile patch of lily of the valley. Early last fall we got all of the junk off of the yard, dug out all of the plants growing there (got rid of [...]