Weyerhauser has a nursery just a few miles north of Chehalis. Every year, they have a public tree sale. You can buy trees by the bag or by the tree. I do the latter. I went yesterday and bought 10 Western Red Cedar and 5 Incense Cedar seedlings to atone for having a half dozen trees killed. For those of you not familiar with tree planting, seedlings come in different sizes. These two species only came in "plugs". That is the trees were grown in plastic tubes, and the roots are compacted. Here's an Incense Cedar.
I spent a couple short seasons planting professionally. It helped put me through my discount college. You can really put a lot of plugs in the ground fast. A pointy piece of metal can be welded on the bottom of the hoedad, and you scalp off the surface stuff, stomp the dibble in, put the tree in, compact it with your foot, and off you go to the next one. Today's work was done with a clam digging shovel and I'm only 32 years older now too.
Here's what you end up with. The tree that is. Not the dog.
That's a Western Red Cedar and it is native to our area. It grows well on that part of the property.
Speaking of,
Here's the construction update. I'm liking it.
The front and side.
The Backside
The "view" out the front window.
Today is rainy and chilly, good weather for tree planting.
I spent a couple short seasons planting professionally. It helped put me through my discount college. You can really put a lot of plugs in the ground fast. A pointy piece of metal can be welded on the bottom of the hoedad, and you scalp off the surface stuff, stomp the dibble in, put the tree in, compact it with your foot, and off you go to the next one. Today's work was done with a clam digging shovel and I'm only 32 years older now too.
Here's what you end up with. The tree that is. Not the dog.
That's a Western Red Cedar and it is native to our area. It grows well on that part of the property.
Speaking of,
Here's the construction update. I'm liking it.
The front and side.
The Backside
The "view" out the front window.
Today is rainy and chilly, good weather for tree planting.