so a little while back I mentioned that there were some general chores I have to
do with trees things like taking care of the weeds cutting the grass regularly
and putting mulch down today is multi-day
my wristwatch is broken my shoes are untied time is a-ticking so is the time
but I am not worried things are what they are come rain or come shine or a
shooting star
doing this work is it really is an opportunity to check on the trees and
see how they're doing some people call it a Kaiser blade psychos
and some leaves in here it's chestnut trees looking a little weak but pretty
good that's one down hundreds more to go
this is a little baby apple tree doing pretty good looking pretty happy pretty
healthy you'll see that the mulch for the most part has done a pretty good job
keeping the weeds off of it that's why I'm putting this second coat on to keep
that weed encroachment and that grass encroachment off I want to give them the
best possible chance of survival
chestnuts were the slowest tree to show some growth this spring but as you can
see here now looking too bad they're doing pretty well so the siberian pea
shrub is an absolutely thriving you can see it here I mean look at that it's
doing pretty gosh darn good
it's absolutely glorious being out here the chirping of the birds buzzing on the
black flies to this this guy does not look like he's doing too well that's a
tree that's not fried thriving
one of the reasons I feel really lucky right now is because I've moved up here
and I'm living here full-time I'm able to do this on a more regular basis so
today is a work day for me but I'm able to get a couple of hours of working in
here and making some progress I would have had to try to jam this all in one
crazy weekend so this is gonna be much more sustainable also spoiler alert and
fair warning to everybody I'm not gonna finish this just today it probably takes
me about five to 10 minutes a tree I'm doing this very diligently and
thoroughly and so this is gonna take me several
well that's all the time I have to work today good news is I was able to get
through nearly a full row of trees so if I add that plus a full day on the
weekend this shouldn't take me any longer than a week I find this to be a
very peaceful way to start your day