Step Three & Four
May. 8th, 2007 08:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ellyssianJustin and I managed to get two more steps in on the back bank; hopefully we'll finish the last two tomorrow!
In other news, the mayapple showed up - I was getting a bit concerned that it didn't make it through the winter. Some of the American holly are showing new growth, so that's a good sign. Bunches and bunches of the hemlock are looking good. Still waiting on the sycamores, I'm fairly concerned that the sweetgums aren't going to show up (to be fair, most of them seemed to be the victim of chipmunks or something like that), and the balsam fir and Serbian spruce trees are iffy.
It's really dry out there. The ground is all crunchy underfoot, the exposed bits of dirt - even in the deep woods - are all cracked and rock hard. We're switching to watering-every-day mode for everything planted in the last year or so.
In other news, the mayapple showed up - I was getting a bit concerned that it didn't make it through the winter. Some of the American holly are showing new growth, so that's a good sign. Bunches and bunches of the hemlock are looking good. Still waiting on the sycamores, I'm fairly concerned that the sweetgums aren't going to show up (to be fair, most of them seemed to be the victim of chipmunks or something like that), and the balsam fir and Serbian spruce trees are iffy.
It's really dry out there. The ground is all crunchy underfoot, the exposed bits of dirt - even in the deep woods - are all cracked and rock hard. We're switching to watering-every-day mode for everything planted in the last year or so.
