flowerbug
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looking good there! and so nice to have a willing and able helper too! 
Starting a Tree Farm
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Haha. She said "no more" after the 5 holes. I have three friends coming out on Sunday to help me but at this point I'm really thinking about renting a dingo with a auger attachment and just putting my bit on there to help make this happen faster. Doing this myself seemed like a great idea and next year we'll start earlier, but right now I need it done fasterlooking good there! and so nice to have a willing and able helper too!
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Rent one. We put in a fence in 2000, and did it ourselves with a manual auger. It took me 2 days to dig all of the 8 holes and put in the 8 ft wooden posts.
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Our weekend was a profitable one
. I had a friend come over and together we got about 80 done. 75 to go . I think the saturated dirt was the main beginning issue- Thread starter
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All done on the drilling. Now I just need to dig the holes out and get pots in
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Good work Sprig! I hope your efforts pay off with much success, well into the future.
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Local non-profit just asked for a first purchase of catalpas for September
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YEA! I do like Catalpas. My sprigs (no pun intended) are now 6 feet tall.
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So like I said before, a local nonprofit purchased some trees from me and I got the opportunity to make my first sale and delivery of trees via canoe. 11 catalpas delivered to an island that a few months prior was covered in buckthorn
My friend Andrew steadying one of the trees as a volunteer packs dirt
I have done work with this group for the last decade, so that was an amazing way to close out a summer. As a child I canoes once or twice and then when I started working with this group I was reintroduced to it and it sparked a huge love which has now sent me on annual trips into the BWCA, so delivery via canoe was an amazing opportunity
Since then it's been tucking the trees in
and letting them sleep for the winter
My friend Andrew steadying one of the trees as a volunteer packs dirt
I have done work with this group for the last decade, so that was an amazing way to close out a summer
. As a child I canoes once or twice and then when I started working with this group I was reintroduced to it and it sparked a huge love which has now sent me on annual trips into the BWCA, so delivery via canoe was an amazing opportunity Since then it's been tucking the trees in
and letting them sleep for the winter
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