Planting

If you check the date of the last post, you'll see it was made five minutes ago, but in actual fact the logs were put in by the end of August, and the plants were put in shortly after that.

For each little tree, I dug out as much clay soil as my back could take and filled the gap with potting mix. There was one type for the citrus and another type for the maple trees.

I watered each one with seasol at day 1 and day 14.

The trees that I planted:

Tahitian Lime x 2
Honey Murcott Mandarin x 1
Tropical Apple (2 each of Dwarf Anna, Dwarf Dorsett Golden) x 4
Liquidambar x 1
Japanese maple x 1
The remaining Australian Finger Lime
Weeping Crab Apple x 1
Blueberry x 2

I'll be interested to see if there really is a difference in the healthiness of trees purchased from a nursery (for twice the price) and those purchased by mail order.

One of the Anna apple trees is from a nursery (where they told me mail order trees were dodgy) and one is from Daleys. Admittedly, the nursery-bought one has a straighter trunk, but they both seem quite vigorous.

More Stumpy Success

Action Man ignored his doctor's advice and took the oleander stump out today. That big steel bar? Apparently it's a fencing bar. Yeah, he just used that, like he was uprooting a turnip.

Meanwhile, I carted away 6 wheelbarrows full of rocks from around the stump of the spiny palm tree and patiently began digging my encircling trench. When it was about a foot deep, the heavens opened. I abandoned the job. The stump will still be there next week! Maybe wet clay will be easier to chip through than dry clay.

Shopping: Spent some more cash. Jute twine. Garden wire. 4L of Seasol. A watering can. Total: $31. That brings our running total to $122.

I seasol-ed the finger lime and the mandarin trees. Someone remind me to do it again in a fortnight, OK?

Maybe I need a gardening calendar. Would that make me a total garden nerd, then?