Plowing the field and other miscellany

The ongoing saga of plowing the field continues unabated. I finally have a reliable, I hope, candidate to plow the field, but we got at least 1.5 inches of rain over the weekend and even some sleety hail on Sunday. So, we wait for the field to dry out enough to plow. I never thought it would be this hard to get people to take your money to do a little work for you.

In the meantime, I hope to go dig some more apple trees from my friend John Alspaugh and transplant them to the farm. I have traded a half dozen or so trees for some dental work. Barter is alive and well.

My friend, Frank Miranti, gave me a fig tree brought from Sicily by his family ages ago. It gets planted today and should bear figs in 3 or so years with a little coddling. He also provided about 100 grape cuttings that are just starting to leaf out and hopefully have developed some fine, white roots. They will be planted closer to the house with the raspberries and strawberries in hopes of keeping the deer a little more at bay.

I'm also looking for the best bed to plant about a dozen lily plants I have been growing on in pots. They should bear abundant flowers. Last summer after I bought them on clearance, I would place them on Lisa's bedside table as they came into flower. A gift of love, that doesn't require cutting them. Now I will put them into our new land and home.

Lisa worked hard on the first delivery cutting the flowers and cutting and bunching all the herbs. We should have herbs all summer. She will be bunching some mixed bouquet garni herb combinations in future.

Comments

[Abram]

I live in Lebanon where we have great apples, but people keep on plowing the apple fields. Is this need, does it create more damage, or benifit the trees, doesn't this dry mositure out? Please adive