Friday, June 30, 2006

Paul spreads compost round apples


compost round apples
Originally uploaded by otaki4fruit.
Our Canadian wwooffer Paul is seen here in the apple orchard. It has been quite an excercise trying to get the kikuyu grass out by hand. We understand kunekune pigs would get it all out but they would also take the comfrey and the nasturtiums and borage and everything else I have planted.

Paul was very patient and put in a lot of work, first weeding, then spreading compost and lastly shredded wood from the shredder. The apples have virtually no new growth on them and the only attention we needed to pay them was to make sure their metal stakes weren't rubbing on the trunk.

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