WORKING IN THE ORCHARD

 We love saying that.

OK, so it's not an orchard like you might find on a sprawling piece of property...just some raised beds behind the house but it's our little orchard & we love it!

I have spent several weekends pulling weeds and grass from the beds and then adding soil and finally mulch to get them cleaned up and looking good.

  Here is one of the pear trees, all topped off with fresh soil and a hardwood mulch.

The berry bushes like a more acidic soil so I put pine bark mulch on them.  This is one of the cherry bushes...all nice and cleaned up (and hopefully happy).

Here's the pomegranate that looked a bit parched when I planted it, but now it has perked up and is doing well.

This is one of the "Austin" variety blueberry bushes.  Again, fresh pine bark mulch for it.

Here is the mayhaw tree, it's been topped off and seems to be doing very well.

The fig tree that was recently planted is also doing great, and is even putting on new leaves.

After I finished with all that over the course of a few weekends, I mowed and edged and trimmed it all when I was done.  Here is the end result:

This coming weekend, I'll get the fishing line around it all to get it deer proof.  For now though, it's neat and tidy once again and will someday be filled with peaches, pears, apples, nectarines, plums, pomegranates, figs, mayhaws, blueberries and cherries.

Our little piece of dessert heaven, ha.