Picking a Peck

Some may have stayed home this weekend, citing gas prices and rising costs, but most assuredly the people in Washington, NH did not.  They drove back and forth constantly on Half Moon Pond, slowing down to take a look at the latest crazy thing the LARC household is doing.  We'd been at it for more than a week by the time Monday rolled around, and though the blueberries had arrived safely on Wednesday, we had yet to put one plant in the ground.  The field we spent so much time making beautiful now looked as if a giant gopher had made its home there.  "Boy!" one passerby commented through his open window as he drove by, "you guys are serious about this orchard thing!"

So here we are, on our way to being a pick-your own orchard:

Excavator for five days: $1259

360 holes to dig: daunting

75 bags of peat moss: $800

black flies: annoying

4 loads of fill: $800

360 blueberry bushes to de-flower: tedious

360 holes to fill back in with peat moss and rockless soil: even more tedious 

kid with ear infection: exhausting

Finally putting fruit in your fruit orchard:

Priceless. 

tags: if you build it