Its been a very busy day at the orchard. My brother has been cutting the grass, in areas, where it was still long. It looks beautiful now.We have purchased mushroom compost and started to spread it around the trees. We have spread mushroom compost around 20 trees, thats a start and we'll be continuing at that rate for a couple of weeks. We have to open the protection around each tree then remove the mulch etc and then loosen the ground apply the compost and then close everything up. I then put the mulch around each tree. It takes time to do all of this, roughly 10 minutes per tree. I haven't been using a wheelbarrow but will be from next week. Its heavy moving all this stuff around.The mushroom guy didn't give me a discount, on large orders, but will try again next week.
We have cut all the grass, yeah, all the grass. Most of it has been shredded to around an inch in length and left on the ground to compost down. We had some problems on the banks where we found a house brick and some rocks. I even got stuck at one point and almost ran over my brothers foot, with the wheel not the cutting deck. It can take 30 minutes to clean the cutting deck. My brother has strained his back and had a lye down on the ground for a little while. I'm glad his helping though.
A bee stung me today, my first sting of the year. I was holding the roof of the apiary while trying to take a picture of the bees, it was late and they were busy eating the sugar and I was clumsy and bang one stung me. I was quick to remove the sting and the poison it wasn't to bad.
My wife and kids were down and we had a picnic, and after a morning of hard work it was a welcome break, after all the work this weekend I was in pain, but a long hot bath and a drink helped.
Its been a very busy day at the orchard. My brother has been cutting the grass, in areas, where it was still long. It looks beautiful now.We have purchased mushroom compost and started to spread it around the trees. We have spread mushroom compost around 20 trees, thats a start and we'll be continuing at that rate for a couple of weeks. We have to open the protection around each tree then remove the mulch etc and then loosen the ground apply the compost and then close everything up. I then put the mulch around each tree. It takes time to do all of this, roughly 10 minutes per tree. I haven't been using a wheelbarrow but will be from next week. Its heavy moving all this stuff around.The mushroom guy didn't give me a discount, on large orders, but will try again next week.
We have cut all the grass, yeah, all the grass. Most of it has been shredded to around an inch in length and left on the ground to compost down. We had some problems on the banks where we found a house brick and some rocks. I even got stuck at one point and almost ran over my brothers foot, with the wheel not the cutting deck. It can take 30 minutes to clean the cutting deck. My brother has strained his back and had a lye down on the ground for a little while. I'm glad his helping though.
A bee stung me today, my first sting of the year. I was holding the roof of the apiary while trying to take a picture of the bees, it was late and they were busy eating the sugar and I was clumsy and bang one stung me. I was quick to remove the sting and the poison it wasn't to bad.
My wife and kids were down and we had a picnic, and after a morning of hard work it was a welcome break, after all the work this weekend I was in pain, but a long hot bath and a drink helped.
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