48F and Misting

Good weather for moving trees to the food-hedge.

These are root-suckers from Niobrara Select American Plum. This is a particularly fine root system for a sucker. Many times they look like golf-clubs with no fine, feeder roots.

They disappear very quickly when planted. It behooves the planter to tie a bit of vinyl surveyor's ribbon on them while he still remembers where he planted them.

I got 19 of those suckers into the ground today as well as a bunch of plum seeds.

Plums can be reluctant pollinators. Perhaps the flowers are not that attractive to bees? The work around is to have the branches of compatible varieties interlacing tree-to-tree. Basically, replicate a plum thicket.

Unlike Mother Nature, though, my suckers are all (likely to be) genetically identical. I intend to graft pollen donors into many of the suckers. I have South Dakota and AU Rubrum available so that is what I will use. Planting seedlings is a way to "hedge" my bets with regard to pollen.

Sunnier days

Zeus cheerfully carrying extra diapers, wipes, snacks and two water bottles.