Exactly what I was going to say!
I still wouldn’t risk it.
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I love starting seed, pruning, and snacking as I go. I also really enjoy planning but never look at the plan later to remind myself what I wanted to do and end up with impenetrable squash jungle…
I hate weeding, organizing, and harvesting in the late big harvest season- carrying and washing it all. early season harvests are fun though.
I don’t mind watering, fighting pests, weed whacking, planting out, and feeding. they’re not good or bad chores I guess
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Check out Joe Real’s Italian Dressing spray, there’s a post on the forum.
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You don’t have to pull back the mulch, it will water in on its own and dissolve. If you can water the area right after that also helps. I know for some areas water is a challenge though.
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Cut a trench and install a barrier in ground. Copper along the barrier may deter further growth.
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Walking the orchard is my favorite, which must be similar to Murky’s “checking on the progress of grafts and new plantings.”
I don’t like thinning – it’s sacrificing the lives of the many for the improvement of the few for our own personal gain.
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Forgot to mention that. It is not only fun to see how thing are going but absolutely necessary to spot problems early on. A few of my pears starting showing signs of fabraea. Luckily it started at pedal fall and it was a perfect time to spray.
Everyday when I get home from work a walk around, it is a nice way to unwind and a great way to see what is more important to do that day or when you have time.
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Yes you can do that but the better way would be to pull back the mulch and place on top of the soil and work it into the soil. Not to say I havent done it your way when I don’t have time or feel lazy. That happens sometimes when I fertilzer in the summer but never in the spring when I am trapped inside all winter. I think it was the Espoma brand suggest doubling the amount of fertilizer if placing on top of mulch. If you think about it the mulch is like a sponge it will absorb the water along with fertilizer as it breaks down. It will also break down the mulch a lot faster meaning you need to add more mulch sooner. As much as I hate doing it I would rather go through the trouble knowing I did it the best way possible. I’m sure that will change when it becomes a burden once I’m to old but for now its more exercise. I just use my pitch fork to loosen it up creating a ring around the drip line. Pulling the mulch back, fertilize it, working it in, then covering it back up. It’s better, my complaint is I have so many trees it takes at a long time like some one here mention that they have a lot.
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Thats for peach leaf curl, I’m after plum curicilio thanks tho
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You can rent something like this. Once a year or so around your garden would keep the poplars out.
They’re usually called groundsaws or blade trencher. The trench they did isn’t very wide so it’d be easy to backfill it with a rake.
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Wow! It’s only 50 bucks a day. That’s excellent news! Thank you so much!
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Dang, you’re lucky. My local rentals are asking around $150 a day.
Oh I realized why it’s cheaper - 0 available 
I’m sure there something similar though
Favorite = picking fruit.
Medium favorite = buying new trees.
Least favorite = everything else.
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I’ll help you eat the fruit zone6 no problem
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I’ve forgotten about this.
I spend anywhere from sunrise to 4 hours afterwards just staring at everything. Sometimes I’m walking around just to walk around at sunset until sunrise as well…
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with my coffee in the morning every day. me and the dog
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if the poplars are growing into an area from outside, make a real trench and install a weed barrier. Then you have a long lasting solution. The barriers aren’t cheap but may be reasonable.
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Unfortunately we actually chopped down a few poplars to theyre growing from within and from our neighbors too. We just cut them down less than a year ago, so I’m hoping pulling roots everyday drops eventually!
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