I made two trips to the farm since the last time I posted, one on November 24 and the other on December 3. On both trips I planted some holly bushes along the north fence line, this will help to isolate us from the neighbors on that side who have dogs that bark and bark and bark.
I don't know just how many I planted but it is a start.
Next I planted three new Hazelnut bushes, these I planted up by the loblolly pine trees. On all these plants that I have planted lately I have used a combination of sand, dirt from the side of the barn that has a lot of cow manure in it and dirt from the original hole. Hopefully this will be better for the plants.
I next planted four azaleas bushes to replace the ones that had died this summer. I also started working on the azaleas so that when it rains the water will be caught to help water them better. I started digging around the bushes so that there is a dam around the lower end of the bush.
On the third I worked on the oak tree that had fallen down last spring and if I hadn't run out of gas in the chain saw I would have gotten it all cut up. I did get a lot of it done as you can see from the photos.
This is a picture from June 23rd.
These are pictures from Dec 3rd
Here is the brush pile that is left from the cutting.
This will be left here for the quail, birds and rabbits.
Here is a picture of the 1 loblolly pine tree that died last year from the drought. It was seventy foot tall and the forestry man said it was at least 80 years old. It fell down sometime between the visit on the 24th and 3rd.
Here is a picture of the 1 loblolly pine tree that died last year from the drought. It was seventy foot tall and the forestry man said it was at least 80 years old. It fell down sometime between the visit on the 24th and 3rd.
Until next time have a good day.
