PLANTING CREW
ELECTRIC DRILL AND BULB AUGER
PRESS THE SOIL FIRMLY AROUND THE BULB
TOUGH ON THE KNEES
WALNUTS
BLACK WALNUT TREESaturday, 9:00 AM. 58 degrees, wind WNW, light. The sky is cloudless and the barometer predicts the same.
A crew of three planted 4,600 daffodils Thursday and Friday. We have about 1,200 left to plant. Chamber members have purchased another 1,000 bulbs to plant themselves. The weather and soil conditions have been perfect for working but it is still a grueling job. I can no longer spend much time on my knees so my part has been design and supervision. One man with an electric drill and bulb auger drills the holes, and two plant, replacing the soil over the bulbs and pushing the soil firmly down around them. The hole is about eight inches deep. An often-used rule of thumb is to cover the bulb to twice its diameter. The deeper the bulbs are planted, the later they will bloom. I like to plant fairly deep. We will fertilize the planted bulbs with bone meal, or a mixture of bone meal and Milorganite.
The beautiful black walnut tree pictured (Juglans nigra) turned from green to golden yellow over night. Walnut has long, pinnately compound leaves and the nuts are borne in clusters of three. This tree is between forty and fifty years old. A leathery husk covers the nut, and the edible kernel is inside the woody nut.
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