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* Before going to Maine
* Map out precise planting locations (JP)
* Determine treatments for each tree
* Half dip / half none
* dip: 2 - 3, 8 - 11, 16 - 19; 21+
* half gravel / half woodchips
* gravel: 1 - 4, 7 - 8, 10, 14 - 16; 21 - 25
* woodchips: 5 - 6, 9, 11 - 13, 17 - 20; 26; walnuts
* Orthogonally:
* 1: Honey crab gravel
* 2: Wolf River dip gravel
* 3: Wealthy dip gravel
* 4: Red flesh crab gravel
* 5: Wolf River woodchips
* 6: Wealthy woodchips
* 7: Honeycrisp gravel
* 8: Keepsake dip gravel
* 9: Red flesh crab dip woodchips
* 10: Mantet dip gravel
* 11: Honeycrisp dip woodchips
* 12: Keepsake woodchips
* 13: Mantet woodchips
* 14: Dutchess gravel
* 15: Cox's gravel
* 16: Milden dip gravel
* 17: Honey crab dip woodchips
* 18: Dutchess dip woodchips
* 19: Cox's dip woodchips
* 20: Milden woodchips
* 21: Cherry dip gravel
* 22: Cherry dip gravel
* 23: Cherry dip gravel
* 24: Pear dip gravel
* 25: Pear dip gravel
* 26: Plum dip woodchips
* Create assignment sheets explaining each tree's planting process to be handed out to people
* Call Agway about gravel/landscape fabric (JERICHO)
* ~100 pounds per tree
* [FAIL] Get my driver's license? (JP)
* Ask Morgan if we can borrow their truck for the week (JERICHO)
* [DONE] Check to make sure plums/pears/cherries/walnuts/kiwi are the same as apples for amendments (JP)
* Pears (Planting is "exactly the same as planting an apple tree")
* 20' - 25' separation
* Soak roots in water 30 - 60 minutes before setting in the ground
* Hole large enough for roots to spread naturally
* Soil worked to eliminate air pockets
* No depression after planting
* Water thoroughly, check for air pockets
* Prune at planting time
* Prune end of this growing season
* Plums
* 5.5 - 6.5 pH
* Well drained
* Cherries
* 6.2 - 6.8 pH; 6.0 - 6.8 pH
* Well drained
* 600 cold time hours
* Leave graft above ground by 1.5" - 2"
* 15' - 25' apart
* Full sun
* Water thoroughly once a week
* Walnuts
* 6.5 - 7.5 pH
* Water thoroughly once a week
* Full sun
* 70' tall
* Kiwis
* 5.0 - 6.5 pH
* Lots of water
* well drained soil
* Lots of nitrogen once producing
* Pests are cats, deer, gophers
* Learn how fungus works (JERICHO)
* [DONE] Ask where it's okay to put rootstock (JP)
* West side of garden
* Check our rootstock to see if it is alive (JERICHO)
* Ask people about bringing food (JERICHO)
* jim/joan
* pat/robin
* [DONE] Order http://www.amazon.com/Empire-Level-78-007-Stake-Flags/dp/B001DZD9YA (JP)
* Delivery Apr 21 - 23
* [DONE] Verify lopper suitability (JP)
* Maybe, maybe not. Check it out on Tuesday, maybe rent one.
* Learn how to graft / what tools needed (JERICHO)
* Find where to get a mattock (not an adze) (JERICHO)
* Send reminder to diggers, plus extra details (JERICHO)
* [DONE] Battery operated night light for cabin in case people sleep upstairs (JP)
* And batteries for it
* Delivery Apr 21 - 23
* [DONE] Investigate temporary fence options? (JP)
* Critter Repellent Deer Away / Coyote urine
* Ordered, Delivery Apr 21 - Apr 23
* Real fencing in the fall
*Research blueberry transplanting
* Go to Maine - Tuesday, April 26th
* Bring:
* Us
* Grafting equipment [Y]
* Knifes [Y]
* Alcohol [Y]
* Mychorizeal dip - small box upstairs [Y]
* Two boxes of stuff from downstairs [ALREADY THERE]
* Grill [Y]
*T-shirts
*Chairs [Y]
*coffee maker [Y]
* From farm
* Canopy tent against rain
* Shovels [Y]
* 5 gallon buckets
* half pickle barrels
* Coffee cans? (Maybe Jim and Joan have some - or yogurt containers)
* Surveyor's tape measure
*Loppers
*Work gloves
* Sleeping bags [Y]
* Tent for sleeping in [Y]
* Camping pads/mats [Y]
* PILLOWS
* Cooler(s) [Y]
* Tuesday in Maine
* [DONE] Pick up truck (and chairs?) from Morgan
* Shopping
* [DONE] Porcupine-away
* Order from amazon
* Delivery Apr 21 - 23
* [CANCEL] Cleaning supplies
* Gloves
* Soap or whatever
* [DONE] Pick up gravel, landscape fabric
* [DONE[ Spread porcupine-away
* [DONE] Move generator
* Wednesday
* Cut material for wood chips
* Mark tree locations (SUN SETS AT 7:35 PM)
* With flags
* Blueberries? Obliterate. :(
* Spread deer shake-away (not on tree spots)
* Thursday
* Clean cabin so people can sleep in it (be done by lunch time)
* Fire permit
* Food shopping
* Condiments
* Chicken, marinade stuff
* Salad greens
* Beer
* Ice cream
* Bagels
* Cream cheese
* Coffee/Tea
* Friday Morning
* Pick up mulcher
* Chip wood for mulch
* Chip more wood for mulch
* Jim and Joan will arrive with trees in the early afternoon
* Probably leave trees in van until planting time
* With soda and some food too probably
* 5 gallon buckets, coffee cans/yogurt containers
* paint brushes
* surround
* shovels
* another grill
* whitewash stuff
* coop and costco food
* hotdogs, hamburgers, soda, juice
* buns
* Bushhog (probably not!) / mow (maybe)
* Till area for rootstock in garden
* Practice planting 1 apple tree
* take notes
* Dig one hole
* Add 1 coffee can of rock phosphate
* Handful of azomite
* Maybe do the fungus dip
* Put the tree in
* Put the dirt back in the hole, also water
* water some more
* Spread compost+ramial wood chip mix
* Mulch ((landscape fabric+woodchips) or gravel)
* whitewash (maybe - or maybe do it the next day)
* Friday evening
* People arrive
* FOOD - Go to a restaurant woop woop woop.
* Saturday morning
* People arrive
* Breakfast
* Bagels (us)
* creamcheese (us)
* eggs (jim/joan)
* juice (coop, jim/joan)
* Saturday (once enough people have arrived - not too late I hope!)
* Demonstrate planting 1 apple tree
* Re-do practice hole
* Snacks (jim/joan)
* Hummmmmmmmmmus
* Salsa
* Crackers, chips
* Vegetables :o
* Plant
* 14 apple trees
* 4 crab apple trees
* 7 plum trees
* 2 pear trees
* 3 cherry trees
* 2 walnut trees
* lunch / dinner - BBQ
* hotdogs (coop, jim/joan)
* hamburgers (coop, jim/joan)
* ketchup, mustard, relish, lettuce, tomato, onion (us)
* grilled chicken, marinade (us)
* salad
* potato (morgan?)
* pasta (robin/pat)
* green (us)
* soda, juice (coop, jim/joan)
* beer (us)
* ice cream (us)
* cookies (jim/joan?)
* Bonfire party time
* Sunday
* Graft rootstock
* Plant rootstock (in garden?)
* 10 ordered from fedco
* Plus some from the closet? Or not
* Done planting!
* Talk to lime people
* Get lime delivered
* Go up and spread it