Day 569: Tree-saving
Oct. 7th, 2021 11:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
eve_primeOne of today's projects was cleaning up the apple-tree mess. Here's what the tree looked like earlier today; I'd trimmed off many of the lower branches already.
And here's what it looked like beneath the tree.
Today I picked up 400 of the apples on the ground (keeping count - I'm really curious how many apples the tree bore this year). Unfortunately I didn't think until I was nearly done that I should have sorted them; surely many could have been donated to the Wildcraft Cider people. Maybe if the tree survives and does something like this again?
Then J. came over with his little electric chain saw and removed two branches - one that was damaged and one that should have been removed years ago as it was in conflict with another major branch. At that point I was able to haul the rest of the tree upright. J. remembered that our old rusted dolly had worked in the past to hold up the hemlock after ice felled it, so he propped up the apple tree for now. Later I'll learn more about staking it up properly.
The other tree-care thing I did today was moving my ficus back indoors for the winter. Por thing - it never fully recovered from the shock of too much light in the spring, though it does look reasonably okay. Now that I understand that its the light level and not heat or light directness that's the problem, I should be able to protect it more next spring.
And here's what it looked like beneath the tree.
Today I picked up 400 of the apples on the ground (keeping count - I'm really curious how many apples the tree bore this year). Unfortunately I didn't think until I was nearly done that I should have sorted them; surely many could have been donated to the Wildcraft Cider people. Maybe if the tree survives and does something like this again?
Then J. came over with his little electric chain saw and removed two branches - one that was damaged and one that should have been removed years ago as it was in conflict with another major branch. At that point I was able to haul the rest of the tree upright. J. remembered that our old rusted dolly had worked in the past to hold up the hemlock after ice felled it, so he propped up the apple tree for now. Later I'll learn more about staking it up properly.
The other tree-care thing I did today was moving my ficus back indoors for the winter. Por thing - it never fully recovered from the shock of too much light in the spring, though it does look reasonably okay. Now that I understand that its the light level and not heat or light directness that's the problem, I should be able to protect it more next spring.