I managed to kill the Willamette raspberries trying to encourage them to grow in a different direction to the one they wanted and possibly by pruning them at the wrong time.
I decided to plant the new ones in a narrower row in the hope that it will make netting them easier, we shall see…
Planted a row of Willamette plus a row each of these. I always get confused about how I am meant to prune the different types. Hopefully can manage to work it out and not murder these ones!
The ski area has gone a rather unattractive brown colour due to lots of Sahara sand being blown up this way and they getting washed out of the air as it snowed then rained.
Perhaps it is nice and exfoliating for the skis!
It has been a strange year for the snow. There were a couple of very early storms that closed the road to the ski area for days on end. That was before Christmas, since then we have had a little snow hear and there, but otherwise very dry.
This has meant a lot of lovely piste cruising, but not much powder and terrible conditions of piste. Nice to have a tiny bit of fresh, enough to make the off piste quite pleasant at least…
We’ve been skiing at weekends with the ‘crowds’ more than some years because of my work.
Compared to the Alps though it isn’t so busy, we have just been spoilt over the years expecting solitude.
