We get free mulch here too, but we have to move in 3 days.
Nice score Tippy! Wish we were a bit closer. I would have happily taken the rest!
Annie,
I am having physical therapy now for my bad shoulder. Can’t show this mulch picture my PT. Hubby knows he will do most of the job moving it.
Socal, even if my shoulder was good, we would not be able to move it in 3 days. It’s more like 3 weeks. We are not that efficient!!
@PharmerDrewee , my right hand man has put his foot down on the front lawn. The only space he can walk without running into my trees.
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Brady,
The man was eager to follow me home to drop the mulch off. I have his business card in case he is in the neighborhood again.
Marco - I could use another load myself but no room for it.
I used to ask another tree cutting company in town. That guy said no. His family has a deal with some mulch and loam business and has sent their mulch there. That company monopolize tree cutting for the town, I think.
I have never asked again until now. This guy has his business from another town. Tree cutting is very expensive here. We cut several trees down years ago. It was expensive then and it is now.
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I can smell it from here!
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I hear you on the shoulder therapy. I had to take off a year on loading and then unloading mulch. This year I plan to get back at it. Maybe I should rethink that.
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love my little 05’ 20hp diesel Mahindra for moving mulch and dirt as well as mucking out the coop. its small enough to go down the rows of the orchard but big enough to move stuff quickly where i need it. the best 6 grand i ever spent. its definitely has saved my shoulders and back. couldn’t have done what ive done here without it.
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@northwoodswis4 ,
I try not to overdo it any more. Last year, I spent over a thousand dollars on chiropractic treatments, too.
@steveb4 If you were near, I would borrow your machine. We have no room to even keep a snow blower.
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I have 10 pear trees in my small backyard. I don’t know how I got that many. I have a problem with pear blister mites. They are not just cosmetic. Some branches had all leaves affected.
Today, I sprayed them with lime sulfur since at this delayed dormant stage, it has worked well for me. I threw oil and Nufilm in the mix,
I sprayed other fruit trees, too, since lime-sulfur helps with other issues, not just mites.
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Tippy, do you still have a persimmon? If so, can you please tell me when it is leafed out? I have fully leafed out persimmon in the pot and don’t want to plant it too early.
One of my persimmon JT-02, has leafed out, the others, Prok and Rojo Brillante have not. I hope they are not dead on me.
The 3 in ground have not leafed out. They usually leaf out late every year.
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Yes, I want to know when in-ground one is leafed out - I guess it would be proper soil temperature to plant leafed out tree.
Persimmons are among the lastest fruit trees to leaf out.
My in-ground IKKJ is not looking good. That sub-zero cold snap after an otherwise mild winter couldn’t have helped. I hope it’s not completely dead – we finally got fruit for the first time last year…
Although people in zone 6 grow IKKJ, I am not convinced that it is cold hardy for our zone, at least, not for long.
I talk about growing it in ground unprotected.
Tippy,
Is your Rojo Brillante potted?
Yes. RB would not last a winter in-ground here.
I had the same tree in my old house and it gave first crop last year as well. Now it is somebody else tree, but I will be watching it to see what that type of persimmon can withstand. Please share your experience too!
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I know Lowe’s sell Contender peach trees. By the time I decided I want a Contender, it was yesterday. Went to Lowe’s, there were 6 potted Contender, none had good structure. Bought on because I did not want to wait a year.
Its branch structure was not that good. I tried to prune it to open center. By the time I was done, nothing much left. I wonder why I bought the tree. I should have waited until next year, shouldn’t I?
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Doesn’t look too bad.
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