daugen
Epic Contributor
good morning all.
Cooler day, high in upper 80's, perhaps rain this afternoon. Thunderstorms in forecast every day now.
Don, thanks for tree protector tip, I already have a dozen of those in use, ordered another dozen this morning.
I think they look ugly and are training wheels for landscaping but until new help hopefully eliminates the need, they
work well.
Off to get a haircut and food shop this morning. Then I have to work in the fruit orchard and strip a dying apple tree of problem leaves and get them out of the orchard.
The tree has been sprayed twice in two months, all the others look fine. That's two dead trees this year out of 28. The apple tree may come back next Spring so I will leave it .
Another small apple tree simply did not make through the winter.
My next big project is to lay plastic down in between the rows in the garden so I don't have to deal with weeds any more. Will mean getting a little Mantis tiller or something similar but
anything to reduce weeding for next year. I ordered another big roll of that landscaping fabric and Amazon reports Your Package May Be Lost. Lovely. It's a big heavy box, I'm guessing the inadequately strong cardboard box holding the heavy roll got ruined in transit and it's sitting in some corner some place awaiting paperwork. The other smaller roll I ordered came a week ago. The smaller role was the one I needed to start with so I'll give them another week and then reorder.
Hot dry weather has slowed down lawn. Good thing considering my current situation. Calls out to several prospects, interviewing Hispanic worker tomorrow morning.
Cooler day, high in upper 80's, perhaps rain this afternoon. Thunderstorms in forecast every day now.
Don, thanks for tree protector tip, I already have a dozen of those in use, ordered another dozen this morning.
I think they look ugly and are training wheels for landscaping but until new help hopefully eliminates the need, they
work well.
Off to get a haircut and food shop this morning. Then I have to work in the fruit orchard and strip a dying apple tree of problem leaves and get them out of the orchard.
The tree has been sprayed twice in two months, all the others look fine. That's two dead trees this year out of 28. The apple tree may come back next Spring so I will leave it .
Another small apple tree simply did not make through the winter.
My next big project is to lay plastic down in between the rows in the garden so I don't have to deal with weeds any more. Will mean getting a little Mantis tiller or something similar but
anything to reduce weeding for next year. I ordered another big roll of that landscaping fabric and Amazon reports Your Package May Be Lost. Lovely. It's a big heavy box, I'm guessing the inadequately strong cardboard box holding the heavy roll got ruined in transit and it's sitting in some corner some place awaiting paperwork. The other smaller roll I ordered came a week ago. The smaller role was the one I needed to start with so I'll give them another week and then reorder.
Hot dry weather has slowed down lawn. Good thing considering my current situation. Calls out to several prospects, interviewing Hispanic worker tomorrow morning.