2023-03-05: Planting and Pruning

Sunday, March 5, 2023

High: 85.5

Low: 27.7

Frost in the morning. Sunny all day.

Observations

• Frost in the morning. It didn't seem to affect the flowering trees much, if at all.
• Saw a bee pollinating one of the peach trees, and saw some type of fly pollinating (?) a plum
• The soil is so clay-ey where the grapes and muscadines are. I'm concerned about their longevity.
• The spinach and chard seeds are starting to pop up. That covered bed, along with the light propagation soil mix, created a good environment for those seedlings, I think.
• The fig cuttings that were closest to the window had developed some mold. I believe it was because of excess solar exposure causing too much humidity inside the figpop bag.

Tasks

• Pruned all the fig trees. Did an audio recording of notes while I did it
• Transplanted the mulberries into tree pots. Interestingly, they don't really have roots, but they have all started developing leaves
• Planted about 9 raspberries on the south side of the greenhouse, applied mostly compost, with mychrorizzae
• Planted about 50 strawberries along the fence bed where the grapes are, mostly compost, with mychrorizzae
• Moved the fig cuttings away from the windowsill to the floor of the office, where these is less solar exposure.

Tomorrow

• Make the rounds
• Get some more compost from Weaverville
• Up-pot the zucchini
• Water the beds
• Understand when to harvest garlic (so we can free up that bed in the back)

Strawberry fields forever

Pollinators showing up

Arugula taking the lead

Raspberries in the ground

I was expecting roots to be there

A small root, I think. Mulberry.

Noticed this wet spot on the two apple trees, but I think it was just from the frost melting.

These fun guys starting to show up again

Comfrey waking up here and there

Morning frost