Rabbit Pressure In Winter - Tree Bark Destroyed - Girdled Trees - Belgian Fence Espalier of Apple Trees - January 2025
I went out back to have a look around at the garden a few days ago and I noticed something odd - that drew my eyes to them as being sort-of...out of place. I noticed what appeared to be some BRIGHT, UPRIGHT lines along the fence that were easily contrasted from the dark(er) grey of the wood fence behind them. What the what? I went over to take a closer look and this is what I saw - in the photo below. See the bright, upright lines that stand out? DEEP SIGH..... These are the trunks of the eight fruit apple trees that I planted in 2020 - during the height of COVID lockdowns . Three Golden Delicious trees. Five Honeycrisp trees. They're pollinators of each-other, so they were selected deliberately. Right after planting, I held my breath...and cut off their heads to limit the trunk height to like 18" tall from the ground . A year later, they had ALREADY put out a bunch of limbs and were climbing the trell...