Here is Damaris holding up a little Eastern Pine, ready to plant. Below, Caleb said:" Does it really smell like a pine tree? Well, why don't we smell it and find out?"
This morning, we went with the Sea Cadets and the watershed group, and planted some trees. There were about a dozen cadets, and then a few people from the local watershed group. We had about 250 trees available to plant. They were donated by the government nursery. Planting happened on a property that we rent. It has a big man made pond with wetland all around it. An ideal spot to plant trees.
All species native to the P.E.I.A good time was had by all. Damaris asked:"Are those fishy things in the water tadpoles Daddy?" And after a closer look, yes they are. They had so much fun, it was hard to get them out of there. I don't know how much fun it was for the tadpoles.
Then it was back to the field where there was some heavy duty planting going on.
Planting is going well. Two more days should wind it up pretty well. The last two weeks we had really good weather. So a lot of planting was done.
Below are pictures of the Big Deere that we use to work the land. It pulls a Rez-Til.
A big rig that churns up the land and makes it fluffy for planting. Heavy duty pulling, it takes all 190 HP to keep it going at 7 MPH.
And the last picture shows the other Deere with the potato planter. You can see how dry it is by the dust in the air. 
I hope to get some pictures of the tuberunit planter yet. Maybe I will get them on next week. Enjoy these in the mean time.
6 comments:
Spring is not complete without some pictures of planting!! What a neat project you did with the tree planting! Fun that the kids could help too. It looks like a good time was had by all!
TFS!! Tetcy
I agree with Tetcy. :D
Love your blogging Randall.
See you soon for your birthday!!!
Karen
I third that! I love you posts because they're such great stories and usually comes with pics. Something for me to aspire to I guess. :) Well, hopefully my new camera will help out some.
Love you! And again, Happy Birthday!
~ M
I guess you didn't get to the tuber-unit planter pics but that's ok! Just letting you know we finished that on Monday! Klaas finished plating in Tuesday, he was right on my tail :) Nice to have all the taters in the ground!
Hey Daddy-o.. I liked your post a lot! it is fun to see what is happening there too.. . even though by now it is probably old news. :) new news for me. It was a really good day here, bright and sunny. I decided that I love the sun! :) hope you have a good week~
Love ya!
Amanda
Hey Guys! Finally planting! Overhere the plants are all full of leaves already, way ahead of you! I personally always love tractor pics ( must be a guy thing) so thank you for these!
Greetings from Holland and like all the other speakers/writers we do like your blog!
Andre and Marielle
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