Farm Journal
Friday, April 9, 2021
Work on the meadow garden has commenced. I cut 23 black locust fence posts around 10 feet long and started prepping the area yesterday. It felt good to practice my felling technique on straight trees…
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Thursday, April 8, 2021
I broke out the grafting knife again yesterday and got through 15 trees, the majority of which were an unnamed local variety that I’ve dubbed Julian Red, since it is red and from Julian and that is a…
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Finished pruning the last tree yesterday -- the big gnarly pear. I know you typically are not supposed to top trees, but much of the growth above where I cut the leader looked diseased -- someone sug…
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Saturday evening we stopped by Jesse Cross’s place and picked up some rootstock — 25 M.26 for apples and 10 Mazzard cherries. I’m excited to get grafting this week. Still not sure where we’ll put all…
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