Unfortunately we didn’t have much help weatherwise yesterday and today it’s even worse. It had cooled down significantly and we had misting rain and wind yesterday. Not terrible, but not really pleasent either. We still managed a few projects around the garden, the most pressing of which was taking out the dying peach tree.
We had a long dry summer last year and during the weeks before we bought the house the peach tree in our back yard thrived! The weight of the peaches was too much for the little tree to bear and it split. We tried fixing it, but there we just not enough wood holding the branches on. So the thing needed to go to make room for another fruit tree.
It actually turned out to be easier than anticipated. The tree didn’t have very deep roots and we where able to mostly rock the thing back and forth to remove it. A few of them where quite tough but in the end it still wasn’t nearly as much drama as we had thought.
The corner of the garden is looking a bit empty now, and we need to figure out what tree we want to put there now. But this being the second tree we took down yesterday (the first one was the dead pine tree out front) we feel quite satisfied with the progress.
