Last weekend Greg decided to close his business so we could have a whole weekend to plant those crepe myrtles I mentioned in the last Memorial Day post. We drove to the country on Friday afternoon & got up early on Saturday to get started before the heat set in. Here's what we did (click to biggify any of the pics).
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| A shot of the driveway with black pots placed where 17 of the trees will go. |
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| Trees laid out. |
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| A dingo to dig with - really a muscle saver! |
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| Placing the first hole. |
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| Digging |
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| Digging |
Almost done digging 20 minutes later!
We had all 27 holes dug in less than 40 minutes! The soil there is very hard packed & has a ton of clay. Even when it's sort of soft after a rain, it is still very very hard to dig a hole by hand. If we didn't have the Dingo, we would still be digging a week later & probably wouldn't be able to lift our arms.
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| 17 trees in the ground 1 hour later! |
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| A shot back down the driveway. |
We only planted 17 because there are still a couple of buildings that will hopefully be brought in before next weekend. To the 17, we added leaves & mulch & a water line & were done around lunch time.
A few more pics taken while the digging was taking place.
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| Peanut field next door. |
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| Muscadines! |
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| Pecans |
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| 4 foot long snake skin in the garden! |
The next two pictures are taken down our side of the old driveway where we will be putting in 30 more (smaller) crepe myrtles, 4th of July weekend. We changed the auger bit to a 10" & went ahead & dug the holes while we had the Dingo. 30 holes dug in 30 minutes!
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| Looking out from the carport. |
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| Looking down the old driveway. |
We are gluttons for punishment!
