already, even in this heat, thoughts turn to the cold of winter, and even out the other end to the spring
the new catalogues start to come, the last seasons signings are either here to stay, departed of their own accord, or are candidates to be redeployed elsewhere
last years chestnuts are this years walnuts…growing fine, just that now the farm starts to take shape they are playing out of position
the 45 chestnuts in the prime position were moved to the sidelines in hedges and as small groups to make way for 115 pecans, persimmions and mulberries, interplanted with 1500 artichokes, underplated with phaecelia…a purple flowering bee-opolis
the year old walnuts, similarly widely-spaced in the SW1 of the farm, make poor sense of the small farm economics and look likely to trace the line above the ditch dividing two fields next year, where their shade will give the sheep a midsummer breather and their footprint minimised
but what for the field freed up?