Start of the access path — there’s an old apple tree to the right
Down the path to the midway point of the wood chips — we’re continuing around the bend to level the ground and lay more chips.
Category: Homesteading
Wood chips
The seemingly endless supply of wood chips … isn’t
Especially when you grab a couple of truck loads
A little farther every day
We’re leveling more and ready for more chips — running the tractor over the bed of wood chips compacts them really well!
Then we were ready to dump some more
And spread them out
Farm Access – Starting to Chip
Well, it’s a start! It takes seven to eight bucket loads of chips to fill up the truck, and two loads got us this far … this is gonna take a while!
Farm Road — Starting to Level
We’re starting to level out the farm road for wood chipping
Farm Path
The farm access path is, unfortunately, a bit of a soggy, muddy mess! We’re going to level it out with the tractor and drop a bunch of wood chips to help keep the path solid.
Mulching the Orchard
We’ve been collecting wood chips
And mulching the orchard — every plant has a nice island of mulch around it.
Kitten Cake
Well, sorta. For Dumplin’s birthday, Anya made the cats “kitten cake” — crushed peanuts (he loves peanuts), tuna, and sprinkles of shredded mozzarella. They loved it … Anya wasn’t sure about crunchy peanuts with tuna 🙂
Orchard Progress
Leaves are sprouting on almost all of the trees and bushes! There are two blueberries that might need to be replaced. And one honey berry that I am pretty sure has a leaf sprouting.
But the orchard is getting full — 2 pawpaws, 3 pears, 6 apples (although one still needs to be moved), 3 cherries, 2 peaches, and 1 fig. The third peach needs to be planted after the fig is moved. And I should have a second fig ready to plant this spring from a cutting I took last year. Two currants — the two replacements won’t get here until the end of May! Three honey berries, three seaberries (plus one more to plant this year), three gooseberries, seven raspberries, and ten blueberries (well, somewhere between eight and ten … we’ll know in another week or two!)
Cat Nap
Ash found a comfy bed — the stump of an old honey locust
