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Planting grid - On a frosty spring morning work started on laying out the planting grid on the ground from the planting plan prepared over the winterPlanting Day - 15 March 2010 - the first day available for planting after the winter freeze. The orchard planting grid had been done in advance - some of the marking stakes can be seenTeam at tree planting - 15 March 2010- with the whole team plus support from Hattens Farm Nurseries we managed to get a good day's planting doneEverything is labelled... - ...on the tree, the stake, the planting list and the orchard grid mapMushroom compost delivery - Each tree had a generous helping of mushroom compost to help it along - needs a lot of compost that all had to be barrowed in.Mushroom compost in place - Very tidily spread around all the trees.Everything in place - Planted, staked, tied, labelled (x2), rabbit guards, deer guards, compost: all x59Planting finished for the season - 18 April 2010 - it's now too late for any more, the rest of the 80 trees will be planted in the coming autumn.First blossom - 11 May 2010 - first blossom makes it all worthwhile.
