By Andrew Haupt
This week has consisted of mainly boring tasks that needed to get done. I’ve worked a lot on irrigation, hooking up the garden border so we can grow flowers along the edge, getting the cherries in the meadow on drip, and covering the hazelnuts along the slope.
Bernie thinned the fruit forming on the pluots and peach trees -- I’m cautiously optimistic, as these are appearing in full clusters, and they didn’t last year.
I planted the sorry looking cucamelons and cucumbers on the off chance that they’ll survive.
Finally prepared the border right behind the orchard fence, bringing a few wheelbarrow-loads of compost and forming a berm, then sticking about 20 rhizomes in the ground that I dug up at Hopportunity Farm down the road. The whole area is riddled with squirrel holes though, and I saw a young ground squirrel running through the berm right after I planted it, so I’m trying to keep expectations low. Planning to hook this up to the watering system from the duck ponds, since hops like a lot of nitrogen.
I’m seeing poison oak pop up all over the place again...
Spent a lot of time moving mulch into the garden, and I finally have all the paths covered.
Also fixed the weedwhacker and started knocking down the tall grass. Snowberries are next...
