rock garden fence
Well, there’s more pruning ahead for the next several days: the weather should be nice, and I’m somewhat looking forward to it. It causes a good kind of fatigue, and the knowledge that I’m slowly regaining strength, in advance of the planting/weeding/landscaping that needs to go on here. It’s strenuous, but less so than digging (we have very rocky soil, and it usually goes better if you alternate between a shovel and a pick axe). We’re also getting a lot of usable wood for the remaining sections of the cottage fence around the pond & flower gardens.
Most of that post work is seasoned apple tree limbs, and some cherry tree limbs, as well. The trees are all getting pretty old, and since we don’t use pesticides, we periodically struggle with some of the diseases that come through, especially in overly-moist years, like the last two have been.
The additional benefit of getting up into the trees is getting my mind off my impending math class at BU (I hate math), and the medieval condition of my stupid, expensive teeth. 
We’re really hoping that all this pruning work restores the trees to bearing. With the disappearance of honey bees in our area, as well as the trees’ venerable ages, it’s difficult to know for sure what they’re up to, and whether pruning will help them at this point. Oh well, we can always use them as graft material for new trees, if this doesn’t work out.
Nicole
/ March 6, 2010There was a Doctor Who episode that created a sci-fi theory about the honey bees. Something about the planets being stolen to an alternate universe, and the honey bees are following them, because of the way they track their paths back to their hives, but that takes them away from our universe… or something like that, I don’t exactly remember. But in my head its a pretty cool image of a long trail of bees in with the stars. Now whenever it comes up in conversation, all I can think of is awesomely cheesy British sci-fi….
Pocketina
/ March 6, 2010I think I saw that one…it was one of the more recent ones, yeah? I thought it was that they were the only ones smart enough to get the hell out when all the planets were stolen. Everyone writing that show is on drugs.
Jennifer
/ March 8, 2010I adore the border for your garden bed!
Pocketina
/ March 8, 2010Thanks!