TODAY IN THE ORCHARD

I spent the day in the Finley Lane Orchard making compost, laying down more landscape fabric to suppress weeds between rows of newly grafted trees, scything around the older trees and beginning the arduous task of checking every lower trunk for borers, beginning with row 7 along the woods. While not perfect, the report on the first 30+ trees is good: only two trees with borers. I will dig them out of the trunks tomorrow.