Seed Orchard Planting #1
The first of several seed plantings at our chapter’s first seed orchard site! Thanks to the South Kingstown Land Trust, the URI Master Gardeners, the board of MA/RI-TACF, and the great staff at TACF.
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- 5/19/12 Prepared rows – landscape fabric
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- The gang is here to plant 330 seeds in our first two Clapper
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- Soil under the fabric was plowed earlier
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- The deer fence gate is large enough to drive
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- Starting cuts in cloth, finishing irrigation setup
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- Making the planting mix: perlite, peat, pine forest soil
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- Cutting holes in landscape fabric, then using bulb
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- The solar-powered irrigation system is in background
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- Mixing more planting mix
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- Don Wulffe
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- Irrigation system connections
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- Irrigation system and water tank
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- Don Wulffe and Master Gardeners completing
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- Irrigation hose arrangement to each tube
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- Gordon Jones places the randomized Chinese controls
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- Carefully arranging the shelters
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- Many hands make light work
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- Removing the soil plugs
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- Placed ‘miracle tubes’
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- Tubes will help keep voles away; sunk 2” down
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- Rudi placing tree tubes
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- Gordon Jones, Engineering Mastermind
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- Gordon checks the map
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- In the homestretch! The Tower Hill side
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- Placing planting mix in tubes
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- Rudi brings planting mix to “top-dress” nuts lightly
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- Nut inside 12″ ‘Miracle Tube’ shelter w/bamboo on lower rt
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- Nuts were then covered lightly w planting mix
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- Watering the planting
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- The Tower Hill planting side
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- More watering
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- Watering complete! Rain in forecast
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- Winding down
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- The completed planting!
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- Wayland nuts in foreground, Tower Hill in background
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- Volunteers enjoy picnic afterwards
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- Rudi Hempe enjoys the delicious watermelon
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- Nanking BC3 orchard
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- Nanking BC3s are 2 yrs old; Chinese controls 3 yrs old
