(And not to my husband, though I want to. I really want to!)
Planting apple trees in excessive summer heat, during a drought?
Not a good idea.
A week afterwards?
Most of them look like this…. and I simply have to say it before I burst.
I told you so!
It’s been crazy hot and dry. Our lawn is turning brown and crunching underfoot.
Not exactly prime transplanting conditions.
But he wouldn’t listen… so now we have 9 almost dead twigs.
And before you say it, I have watered them.
I purchased three 100′ foot expandable hoses strictly for that purpose.
I added them to my original 100′ foot hose and have repeatedly hauled the four 100′ foot hoses out to the far corners of our property watering the damned things.
One tree.
One in ten is all that looks healthy.
I told him!
But he wouldn’t listen.
Indeed.
River's world..... 
Want some of our rain? For the last month our weather folks have stopped measuring the inches, and are now measuring the feet. I swear to Lordy that Mother Nature is trying to create another Gulf of Mexico, right between the Atlantic and the Current Gulf.
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Oh yes, please. Send it all our way. We haven’t had a decent shower for 2 months.
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Well, with the Gulf about to have not one, but TWO hurricanes swirling at the same time, the rain will be enough to turn the Gobi into fertile farming ground.
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Trouble is they usually fizzle out before we feel any effects.
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We been knew, hm? Unfortunate. The grass didn’t even green up where you watered. Tsk.
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I can’t remember this hot and dry a summer….. it’s been horrid.
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So sorry. At least you know your autumn will never fail 🙂
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Some people would be happy with ONE apple tree!!!
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Those people didn’t have to plant and water the other 9!
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He is a hard worker. I wouldn’t rub it in but hope spring eternal that they will come back to life like my sunflowers did. Since my husband follows my blog, as I do his I can’t rub much in on the blog without being transparent. I look forward to my sunflower’s continued growth and seeing more falcons and my list becomes the husband’s to do list when I start something in the garden and that makes me happy.
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Sadly, my garden list never transfers ownership.
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Oh, I begin the work and then he comes to join me and this is good. Then, I kind of look hopeless. For example: today there was a pot which is now cemented to the ground to move and I couldn’t, so he was out there. He decided to build steps to reach the pot and the renovated tree trunk. Great idea!
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You’re a lucky woman. In 36 years my husband has only ever helped me with one garden project.
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Your lawn looks like one enormous garden project.
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It is. Mowing and trimming is an all day affair.
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as is planting those apple trees…
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Indeed. With less reward..
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Oh, you have a good sense of humor!
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I try….
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We’ve had the same weather here, so I guess it’s a good thing I haven’t been planting any apple trees lately.
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My advice?
Don’t.
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Mulch! And a sort of openable dome around the trunk so that any evaporated water is collected and drops back into the mulch. That will give your hubby another project 🙂
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The last thing my husband needs is another project!
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Just wait until he makes apple tree cider. Then you will see the logic of his endeavor !
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We already have 3 mature trees loaded with fruit…. and never any cider.
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With a broken toe and all. I’m impressed!
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Pain has faded considerably…..
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Now you have kindling for winter 😆
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Ha!
That’s one way to look at it…
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I am sorry. This has been a tough summer.
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