The main tasks we've handled in the last few weeks are: cutting grass with the brush mower, cleaning up remaining sticks and firewood from trees cleared along hayfield, transplanting remaining strawberries, moving blackberry "suckers" to new home where strawberries had been, weeding and mulching blackberries and grapes, weeding asparagus, planting sweetcorn, and working up remaining garden patches for potatoes and other vegetables.
We're still hoping to get some more raspberries transplanted and I'm told I can get some more blackberry suckers from a local grower, so I'd really like to get some more blackberries started.
The asparagus is really coming along nicely and we've weeded it. I'm guess that all but about 20-30 of the 270 roots we planted have come up and even when I weeded yesterday (about 5 weeks post-planting), there were a few small ones, which means they are still coming.
Both of our pear trees died, which is a bit of a disappointment, so I have to decide whether to replace them. I might way until next year. We also lost 3 out of the 6 grapes we planted last year, so I'd like to replace them as well. That might also have to wait until next year.
We're hoping to have the electricity hooked up soon, in which case I can power the well without using a generator. The hope then is to put up some electric fence and find a horse or a few steers to move to the land and keep the pasture areas grazed down so I don't have to mow them.
It will be time to cut hay soon, which we plan to use to mulch the garden. We took the brown decaying hay piles from last year to mulch around the blackberries and grapes and that worked really well.
