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I found no morels here this year. We had no rain during the 3-4 weeks they normally show up.
Too dry for them.. bummer.. but it was also too dry for fireblight.. which is nice.
TNHunter
Filled 20 wheelbarrows with soil and brought it to a raised bed.
Up-potted my melons.
Re-organised my seedlings.
Gave all citrus trees some iron sulphate and NPK.
Fertilized some peach trees.
Watered my blueberries and gave them iron sulphate as well.
Took some weeds out.
‘Repaired’ a hole in the fence by putting a large block of concrete in front of it, when I noticed that a wild boar managed to enter my vegetable garden and ruin my lettuce bed.
Watered a lot of plants.
Checked my cuttings, took out the ones that died.
Removed the first flower buds from my dahlias.
Re-organized my cacti so they can gradually get used to full sun after being inside during winter.
youre killin’ me!
planted my black gold cherry in between 2 currant bushes. the grand daughter assisted. shes 3 and she brought me the shovel from the trailer and carried it 30ft. to me. i didnt think she could but shes big for a 3 yr. old. mums 5’11’’. dads 6’ 4’’. she also helped me pick sticks that fell over the winter. pulling some pretty big ones. shes stubborn and doesnt give up easily. i make her problem solve things and she really likes when i ask how she would do it. helps build her confidence.
puttered. looked online for peat moss bags. bc I’m low
checked on trees. used the hedge trimmer thing on some grass patches. planted in the new baby mock oranges.
Puttered fits my effort too. I wandered around a couple days ago and tipped all the deer browse, dessicated tips, and random broken branches off most everything accessible without climbing or crawling (which is still most everything I’ve planted.) today I revisited and was glad to see that much is responding with some new growth.
Something the deer browse on around here stalls growth on much of my yard, but just making it a clean cut seems to eliminate the effect. And I assume the frost/wind desiccated branch damage continues to steal nutrients until the plant fully self prunes.
There is at least one night dipping into the 30s later this week that I hope does not freeze out more new growth. So much has already had to push new growth several times already.
We can spend hours and hours puttering. At the end of the day we think “ Where did the hours go? And what did I do all day?'“ Answer: puttering around.
i was looking at stuff! it’s important to look at the stuff and think
Today I worked on improving the fences around my apples, which had taken a beating from both rabbits and deer after a 3’ snowfall. The improvements include both (a) 2’ hardware cloth around individual young apples with new grafts and (b) 4’ chickenwire reinforcing 7.5’ plastic surrounding the entire dwarf orchard of 24 trees. Defense in depth.
If I had 4’ used chickenwire rather than 2’ before, the rabbits and deer would have been thwarted. Next time we have 3’ of snow in one day, I may sit outside with a shotgun.
I looked at some persimmons… blossoms, small fruit.
Picked strawberries, mulberries, ate some, dehydrated some.
Cleaned out all the overgrown (gone to seed) lettuce from my all fall winter spring bed… Prepping that bed for yellow crookneck squash now. Will grow it vertically.
Did some weed eating.. on the quarter acre plot where we are going to build new home someday.
TNHunter
Spent a couple of hours thinning out the fig — it had put on a lot of new growth and was getting congested in the middle. Also potted up some hardwood cuttings I took in February that have finally started showing roots.
I planted my “last” fruit trees: chojuro and shinko asian pear, bare root. Or at least last ones to complete a cohesive landscape design, there is absolutely room for more 
19 trees now: 4 asian pear, 5 euro pear, 3 peaches, 3 sweet cherries, 2 apricots, 2 plums. I was going to make it an even 20 but decided a corner spot would be nice for a swinging bench seat
Prepared some soil, then I squished aphids off all my starts and actually washed the peppers with dish soap then rinsed them.
At least now the nights are warm enough to leave unprotected outside. The starts I already planted 2 days ago have NO aphids on them now- so something is working on that..
Saved a Bradford pear seedling today. Ill probably graft AC Harrow Crisp to it and plant somewhere. idk where yet though 
Moved mulch (composted leaves and grass clippings) to cover beds of berries, intending to retain moisture, suppress weeds, and gradually improve the soil.
Weeded. Still struggling to eliminate bindweed from the berry beds.
stuffs terrible. they like to grow through my blueberries.
Uppoted 50 figs into their 5 gallon homes.
Planted some gooseberries and watermelon too. Soil temp is at 57 it is go time
