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Planting grid - On a frosty spring morning work started on laying out the planting grid on the ground from the planting plan prepared over the winterPlanting Day - 15 March 2010 - the first day available for planting after the winter freeze. The orchard planting grid had been done in advance - some of the marking stakes can be seenTeam at tree planting - 15 March 2010- with the whole team plus support from Hattens Farm Nurseries we managed to get a good day's planting doneEverything is labelled... - ...on the tree, the stake, the planting list and the orchard grid mapMushroom compost delivery - Each tree had a generous helping of mushroom compost to help it along - needs a lot of compost that all had to be barrowed in.Mushroom compost in place - Very tidily spread around all the trees.Everything in place - Planted, staked, tied, labelled (x2), rabbit guards, deer guards, compost: all x59Planting finished for the season - 18 April 2010 - it's now too late for any more, the rest of the 80 trees will be planted in the coming autumn.First blossom - 11 May 2010 - first blossom makes it all worthwhile.
More quotesGood fruit and good plenty doth well in the loft
Then make thee an orchard and cherish it oft (Thomas Tusser, Five Hundreds Points of Good Husbandry, 1573)
