Planting 100 bare root trees!

Tomorrow Phil will be leading a volunteer crew in planting the 100 bare root apricot trees that he recently picked up from the nursery. They are the Blenheim variety, grafted on hardy Nemagaard root stock.

The holes have already been drilled with an auger, 12-18 inches deep. He has constructed a jig to hold the trees centered in each hole while we put in a cup of alfalfa and collapse the walls to fill in the holes. He wants the roots to be able to penetrate the soil without bumping up against an impenetrable wall.

On another note, here is a great blog post on the native pollinators we hope eventually to encourage in our area:

https://www.grassrootsecology.org/blog/2020/2/21/all-creatures-especially-small?mc_cid=367fd7550c

Posted on February 26, 2020 01:34 AM by jmpackard