Planting in the Cold

This is an update on the planting progress, which satisfies two of my resolutions -- to blog and to plant! In the last few weekends, despite temperatures in the 30s during the day, we have made big progress on the planting projects. Have planted four plum trees, three fig trees, an apple tree, a pear tree, two grape vines, seven blueberry bushes, seven camellia bushes, and one garden bed with winter veggie transplants. Yippee! Guess all of the bundling up in layers of clothing and grumbling was worth it. We have also continued our sod-wrangling, i.e., moving sod from the spots we don't want it to the paths in the front fruit orchard. Have almost lined all of the paths with a sod carpet. We are also making some progress on deciding where the other fruit plantings will go: a double row of grapes, a double row of blackberries, three miniature figs, and a persimmon in the front orchard; bunch grapes along the old fence near the barn; and more blueberry bushes in the barnyard. After the fruits, have to turn our attention to the flowering shrubs that will be planted along the long fenceline with our neighbors. It looks like our winter and spring will be filled with planting!