15 March 2017
The olive grove we drive through and park in to get to the house was having a major haircut by a couple of men who clearly knew their way round a chainsaw and how to prune olive trees, so we asked them to come and do ours next. We struck a deal and our trees got their radical prune too.
The olive grove we drive through and park in to get to the house was having a major haircut by a couple of men who clearly knew their way round a chainsaw and how to prune olive trees, so we asked them to come and do ours next. We struck a deal and our trees got their radical prune too.
The trees are now surrounded by offcuts, which are excellent for the mulcher, as the wood is much softer than the seasoned branches we've been giving it. But there is a lot of it, much of it dropped willy-nilly on my plantings and the wild asparagus I've been nurturing. I also asked the neighbour if he wanted his offcuts and he said he didn't, so we said we'd collect them - his field is two acres, and must have 30 trees - there's a big job to do there. Also, the neighbour down the slope to the east of us turned up a few days ago, with a digger to clear his patch for planting more olive trees, and he uprooted an enormous cypress, which he also said we could have, so that's another big cutting and moving job. Lots of tree work in the near future.
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