Rescuing and Transplanting Fruit Trees
Hello friends,
This week we are off to rescue and transplant fruit trees.
Here’s the story…
For a few weeks, every time we left the homestead, we would see a smiling man trimming olive trees in one of the properties on our street.
That property had been for sale, at least since we moved to the homestead, and now it looks like we have new neighbours.
We wondered if that man was the new owner until, one day, we decided to stop to say hello and introduce ourselves.
After a friendly introductory chat, Rui told us that one of our neighbours bought the property to extend his land and is, soon, going to build a new house.
Rui’s job is to trim the numerous olive trees and remove the fruit trees planted where the new house will emerge.
When we found out they were about to cut down fruit trees, probably to burn, we ran to the rescue.
It took us two days to remove and transplant the fruit trees.
On the first day, we removed an old apple tree and two quince trees.
Knowing that I wanted a red plum tree, on the following morning, James went back to remove a poor old plum tree that was trimmed down and left with only a short thick trunk and its roots.
It took James all morning to remove the old tree. Now, it sits happily in the small orchard in front of the swimming pool.
We also transplanted sixteen small cuttings (some truly small!), also from apple, quince and plum trees hoping they will make it.
We hope all of the new inhabitants of the Orange Bloom Homestead will survive and thrive.
We will keep you posted!
Stay tuned!
See you next week!
Luciana and James
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