You’re ahead of where you thought you’d be. Slow and steady wins the race!
While I LOVE trees, I like your plan for letting in more sunshine. That’s never a bad thing. And firewood in winter? Bonus! :)
Tunnel wasn’t even getting sun until 11am and it gets shade around 5pm. Need to get my neighbor to come over with his dozer once things dry up. I have enough stumps to look at already. Some are 13 years old and still solid.
Next one to come down will be a red oak. Good firewood for those extra cold nights. Already took a couple of true white oaks down including a really pretty one but it was 8 foot away from the tunnel so it had to go. Took a hickory down and have another to cut down. Those will be for the smoker. Then I have several Post Oaks to take down which is what we have most of.
Got an inch of rain night before last and 1/2 inch so far this morning and it will probably go to a full inch before the day’s over.
Rainy day project. Got a hole cut in an electrical enclosure yesterday to mount the touch screen in that will be going down in the shed near the tunnel. Gonna get that put together today and mount it to the wall up here for now with the industrial PC and controllers connected to it. Basically gonna put the entire tunnel control system together up here for now. (minus the $2k of stuff for motorized sides/gable vents)
Sunny with a high of 80 tomorrow. Got some ribs and a pork butt for the smoker. Only salmon they had was farmed in Chile, no thanks.
Will buy wiggle wire and track this week and then plastic by the 4th of July. That was the plan as of a couple of months ago anyway. I thought I could get a month ahead but it ain’t happening. Hardware will nickel and dime to you death. I’m not behind at least.
I’m going to lime before the next rain. Plant in mid August for Fall/Winter crops.
Three of my Shangai Green bok choy plants bolted this week. Got to harvest most of it and it will be a good one for Fall when it’s not apt to bolt. It was the fastest growing of half a dozen types of Asian cole crops I did. I did a little of everything to see what would do well in Spring but kept plenty of seeds for Fall. Most all were minimum seed count - 200 per packet. Enough to see what I can grow right though to next year.
Grocery store still has some Shisito plants but they’re looking a bit ridiculous at 18” tall in 3 inch pots.