Orchard Progress

 OK raise your hand if you're tired of orchard posts. LOL. I'm sorry, but this has been a big project for a couple old folks. There's a lot more to it than just putting trees in the ground. Seventeen trees are now settled into their new homes. The fig and pomegranate were leafed out when we picked them up so we'll wait until the last frost before we put them in the ground. They are temporarily living in our bathroom and they may end up in the backyard as we're running out of room in the orchard. 

Three more heirloom trees will be added in September. Jaimee's just waiting to insure the grafts will take.

Our son, DIL, and granddaughter were out 2 weeks ago. It was all hands on deck.

Our DIL works remotely and she's been putting in a ton of overtime and was ready for some downtime. Alas, downtime around here looks like this. She's a good sport and not afraid to get her hands dirty.

Around here everyone has a job 

We try to make work fun

Just add water.

The next day, DH welded caps on the open pipe to keep wasps from making nests

DH dug ditches for more pipeline while I was at his folks' Thursday and then we both got behind shovels to fill them in on Friday

 I'm working on a schematic to map the varieties in each location as half of these are heirloom trees from old orchards on homesteads across these mountains.

Then yesterday we spread grass seed and strung out more pipe to set up a flood irrigation system

And I promise not to write an entire post when the first leaf appears, but we'll be cheering behind the scenes. LOL