Different aspects

August 2014 orchard views

Early challenges

It wasn't an easy job keeping the trees fertilised before we had our injection system installed.

November, 2013

 December, 2013

March, 2014

Another new family member

March 2014 - After a lot of searching we have gained a new family member - Fred the tractor. He's a great little workhorse, making Stew's paddock maintenance work far more enjoyable.  

We've also had a massive session over a few days making wire tree protectors after having a steady flow of roos in the paddock.

Another weekend, another job!

Fencing around the paddock is now a priority with roos getting stuck into the trees. Stew's doing it all himself and doing an amazing job.

New year new life - but not ideal in the paddock

1 January 2014. Our paddock has traditionally been a bit of a kangaroo thoroughfare so our young trees are a bit under threat of being munched. Fencing and wire tree guards are on the cards.

Irrigation and tree planting

November 2013 - we laid the irrigation after work for a week which was pretty hard yakka and then spent a weekend getting the trees planted.  Getting the trees delivered and planted had to wait til the ground dried out a bit after a really wet winter.

Sago threw herself into the challenge

 

The trees arrive!

OK, so it has been way too long since I posted, so I am going back to old photos taken and uploading them with captions and a timeframe.  This was a pretty exciting day, with the photo taken just after the oak and hazel trees had been delivered by Al.  November 2013.