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| Spring 2016 Hop Shoots! |
I know I am a little late getting back to the blog. We have done a lot of work on the hop yard already this spring. We got our trellis 99% complete!
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| Trellis is close to finished! |
One of the other things we are doing this year is mulching our rows to help combat the weeds. Thanks to our friends at Limbwalker Tree Service, we were able to secure some seasoned wood mulch. Oh, and of course there is a huge thanks to Terlouw Construction for hauling the mulch to the yard with me! Would have taken a while longer without his big dump truck. Even with the slight mishap on the first load.
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| Oops... |
Luckily, no damage was done to the truck and it was a "simple" pull out with the tractor. I say "simple" because what you can't see in the picture is the other ditch at the front of the truck. Yea, as you can guess, the tractor pulled and the front end dumped into the other ditch. Anyway, they were able to get out, and on with progress we went.
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| Successful mulch dump... |
Eric and I hauled a few loads and the morning was gone, but the mulch was here! Crystal and I got to work spreading it down the rows.
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| Strange, again with the wife looking like she does all the work... |
So, really, I hauled the mulch and Crystal spread it out. We were able to get a couple rows done before we had to call it a day to go see some friends for a birthday celebration!
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| Two rows down, Eight to go! |
Next time I will spend a little more time bringing you all up to speed on what this year will look like. Thanks for stopping! More to come soon!
