Locust trimming, spraying, and pecan planting

Locust trimming

I finally got to trimming the locust trees.  There are a lot of locust trees here!  The locust tree beetle is really doing a lot of damage to these trees.  I even saw some of the bugs!

Lots of trimmings!  I wanted to burn these but they are too green!  I will let dry a bit before burning.

Spraying the trees!

I didn't get any pictures of it, but I sprayed the bejesus out of the trees!  Not much to see anyway.  I sprayed the locust with dormant oil mixed with carbaryl (sevin), dormant oil on the remaining fruit trees, and deer repellant on the white pines, forsythia, choke berry/cherry, and elderberry!  Whew.  Lots of spraying!  Really.  It took most of a day!

Northern Pecans and Hican planting

Seems like I am missing a weekend here somewhere, but I can't figure out where, so I am sticking this in here!   The pecans and hicans arrived!  They are not of great quality - the roots are barely formed and the grafts are still wrapped.  I hope they survive!  

I had to plant these deep to accept the long root stem on these trees.  Also, I unwrapped the grafts, that seemed very new...

At 60 feet apart, it took the top half of the field to hold all of these!  I will need to cage these so that the deer don't damage and so the farmer doesn't run them down when he makes hay!

UGH! more rain?

Enough already!

I mean really?  We need rain, of course - but can we keep it under 2 inches per week?  Nice steady rains are preferred - these downpours are rough on the garden!

Water is RUNNING through the bean patch

Washed alot of dirt down in the front patch too

Washed a gully in the corn!

corn gully

Pris

tine apples need support!

I didn't think these apples (or any of the fruit this year) so they are in danger of breaking down the tree!  Pristine are a very early apple - ready in mid-July.   I placed some boards up to support the tree.  I am hoping that the critters don't use the board as a ramp to get at them!

Peach tree status - "June drop" not so bad! (so far)

Normally in June the peach trees will drop a good amount of fruit and leaves - this is known as  "June drop".  This year, so far, the drop has been relatively light.

Big widow-maker came down

I was walking the perimeter and came across a big widow maker near the sheep field.  Glad I wasn't mowing when this thing came down!  I had to go get the tractor to move this thing.

Hay field 

My neighbor got around to making hay this weekend.  He did the part below the locusts this year.  Very nice!  Saves me having to flail mow so much.

Grapes and spraying

I got my new sprayer working and hit the grapes and the orchard trees with sevin and myclobutanil.  I saw some Japanese beetles out so I wanted to be sure my grapes were protected.