We have had a busy week in the nutfarm, checking the health, retying, taking off stray shoots, making sure that only one trunk comes out of the graft.
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| Flowering in the A4. All plants flowering recorded so we can see what goes on to produce nuts. |
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| A lovely straight trunk |
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| Shoots coming off at the graft |
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| Too many shoots coming off the graft and all bunched in the tie - some serious work needed here. |
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This one has branched below knee level. Two of the shoots will need to be removed to create one strong trunk - I hate doing all this cutting off of pretty growth
So you can see the people doing the tying have quite a responsibility!
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We get quite a lot of debris from our silver birch trees, and even though they remind me of 36 Wylie Street we decided that they were getting quite old and shedding branches in the windy storms. So we got the Tree Surgeons in, the planner, the chainsawyer and the chipping guy. Duncan went out and said "I can see why you don't need 4 guys" The chainsaw man looked perplexed. "Because you're T'ree Fellers"!!! I told Duncan they must hear that joke every day.
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| Ready to start |
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| Down she goes |
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| Chop her up |
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| Chip it up. |
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| Then the chip was taken to our composting plot. |
Lots more light coming in now, and hopefully less mess in the drains.
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