Summer First Harvest Moon
Today, again, harvesting trees. This time black locust, a thorny tree that grows fast and germinates easily. In olden days fence posts, foundation posts, anything requiring a sturdy rot-resistant wood were common uses of the black locust. This tree will get used as firewood for the great Woolly ingathering here on Monday.
Other hardwood trees like oak, in particular, but ash and maple and others as well, require a year or two of drying to get their moisture content below 20%. Black locust is a low moisture wood even when it’s alive.
In felling this tree my directional cut was at a slight angle and the tree came down on our vegetable garden fence. But. Fortuna was with me. The main branch that hit the fence landed right on top of a fence post, square cedar. It didn’t mind at all. May have sunk a bit lower in the earth. A slight dent in the gate where a smaller top branch made impact, otherwise, the fence came through fine. Whew. Felling trees is art as well as science and I mishandled this one.
Early this morning I sprayed Enthuse, a product to generally spiff plants, give them an energy boost. That was over all the vegetables and the blooming lilies. The lilies are my favorite flowers by far and almost all of the varieties that I have I purchased at the North Star lily sale last spring. These are lilies grown here, hardy for our winters. Here are pictures of the current state of the gardens and preparations for the Woolly homecoming.
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