Protecting the trees

 The sheep are terrible bastards for chomping on trees, even big ones, so these tiny trees we planted in Autumn need good protection so they can manage to get to fruiting size. There is a barrier a bit away from the tree so the they can’t eat the leaves, and then I decided they needed something round their spindly little trunks too so if they make it through the first line of defence at least they can’t bite clean though the trunk!

Fingers crossed they survive to fruiting age. We are also trying some hemp mulch around the bottom to suppress weeds and give them a chance to grow - it’s a hard life being a tiny tree around here, they need all the help they can get!

This is the new section Doug has cleared. Soon we will plant more trees here!

Grow tree grow!