My wee little apple tree has been on Plot 31 for at least
nine years. It was put at the front of the plot as there was a pre-dug hole
there from the previous tenant – we think it was a pond but it was tiny and
crap, so we put a tree in it!
This patch of the plot is always boggy and soggy, and over
time the tree has gotten more and more horizontal, and this wasn’t helped by
one of the limbs growing out to the side. It was effectively on the floor, but
then I cut it off a little while ago to tidy it up. One of my grand plans for
this tree was to get a decent tree stake, pull it up, and tie it – so we have!
It looks a lot better now. The stake came from Wickes (as
this is now where I am bulk buying my timber and gravel boards from) and David
helped to ram it in. The wee apple is now vertical, and I turned the clods over
at the bottom before putting down some thick folded parcel packaging paper, and
two sacks of 20mm gravel. The paper and gravel will act as both a weed
suppressant and a mulch, but it also just looks a lot tidier.
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