Thirty-two fruit trees in the ground

The goal for today was to plant 20 trees and the stretch-goal was 32.

Five apple trees and three pear trees at Southern Belle's

The goal was 8 trees at Southern Belles + Twelve pear trees in the Hill Orchard.

Twelve more apple trees in the Upper Orchard rounded out the Stretch-goal. The Goal and the "Stretch-goal" are getting closer together because I am getting a better handle on what I can do in a day as I gain experience.

Planting the trees includes armoring them against rabbit girdling and staking to reduce wind-whip.  I failed to bring supplies to armor against the rabbit girdling. Improves, adapt, overcome. I had paper. I cut strips of plastic from the composted manure bags.

Once I got rolling, I was planting one tree every eight minutes. It helped a lot that the holes were pre-dug. The fact that I was planting, staking and armoring three trees at-a-time slowed me down. 

I am still in that stage of life where I expect a call something like "I need to have you pick up Kubota in Ortonville in 90 minutes". That means I do a little bit of work and then tie-it-off so I can walk away from it and it will not unravel.

I turned left out of the driveway at 10:15AM and turned left, back into it at 4:30PM. It has been a productive day.