Day 48

Blueberries!

Raspberries!

Blight on Top

Orchard Day! I worked with Daniel this morning in the orchard; he weeded while I pruned. Some of our trees, primarily pear, have developed blight. What's that Kathy? Good question, didn't know either. Blight is any of various plant diseases whose symptoms include sudden and severe yellowing, browning, spotting, withering, or dying of leaves, flowers, fruit, stems, or the entire plant. Usually the shoots and other young, rapidly growing tissues of a plant are attacked. Most blights are caused by bacterial or fungal infestations and can be treated by removing the infected area. Simply put, I took off the brown leaves.

I was thinking about pulling an Edward Scissorhands and making the trees into animal shapes but I thought that'd be a bit too progressive for Burge. Daniel did some weedeating until it started raining. After pruning and weedeating, we went to Jeff Cook field to change the irrigation to support the newly planted corn and squash. Then I came back and finished pruning, I'm quite the pruner now.

This just in, Burge's garden has been featured on one of my favorite shows Vampire Diaries :) They film on the square in Covington and I didn't even know it :) You know the scene where Bonnie loses her powers and can't grow her garden anymore but by the end of the episode she learns how to again? Well I do, and it's great! That dead garden they show in the beginning is ours, they paid us $200 to take away our dead plants...:)


My family is coming to stay in the apartment on top of the barn for Mother's Day, here are pictures: