Last winter we had lost several large pine trees - and the few that survived that bad storm have been leaning more and more each month. Jeff decided today that it was time for them to all go - so he pushed them down with his tractor. Pushing them had the distinct advantage of pulling out the entire root ball - this made cleaning up rather easy. 
So he pushed three huge pine trees down - just so that they would miss our young fruit trees. He then sawed them up enough for the tractor to be able to pull the stems and branches to a new "burning pile" across the road.
The plan now is to make a straight line - parallel to the picket fence - all the way to the end of our field. Then plow from the fence on out toward the fruit trees. This new section will be divided into two parts - one for blackberries (toward the back) and one for blueberries - toward the front, on the ground where the pine trees used to grow. Hoping that the years of dropping pine needles turned the soil a bit more acid - to keep the blueberries happy.
We got 40 more blueberry bushes - like last year, at the end of season clearance at Lowes.
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| All cleaned up! |
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| New blueberries, waiting to be planted |
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