TODAY IN THE ORCHARD

Today Laura and Bunk sprayed half the orchard with Neem, Fish, Kelp, EM1, Karanja and Dipel. We started at 5 AM and were done at about 7:00. We saw two bluebirds at Finley. They appear to have moved in. Hooray! Laura went off to Seth’s to plant 4,000 more young grafted trees. I mulched young apples and pears with chips created by yesterday’s chipping. Later I did another leaf/bloom inventory update at the Finley Lane orchard. There are quite a few trees still dormant or only at green tip. Others are at king bloom.

In the late afternoon I gave a small grafting class (four of us) at the next-door-neighbors. We topworked an old tree with many small new stems that are the perfect size for topworking. Also noteworthy is the Conjuro Asian pear: it is in full bloom. We are eating rhubarb and asparagus now.