March 18, 2018

Another project has been started and is done!

Today is the last day that Tsugawa's Nursery will have bare root stock. So right after worship service we made our way out to Woodland.

When we arrived and looked at the trees that were still available. There were 5 or 6 different apple trees available so we chose King, Liberty and Braeburn. The last apple tree that we had was a Braeburn, but we never took care of it and ended up taking it down a couple of years ago. In all of the time that we had that tree I didn't use many of the apples.

Now that we have a couple of new varieties, I am looking forward to when we will have a harvest of them to process and make pies and applesauce.

The method that we are trying is from the Mother Earth News website HERE. I like that the trees are of a manageable size and it will be easier to take of them if we start them off small.

Before the trees got whacked and planted

The main thing we had to do is cut each tree down to around 18" they may be closer to two feet. We spent $24.99 a tree just to cut it down to about two-thirds the original size. You would think that it would bother me to do that, but not so much. I'm going to have mini fruit trees!