Field hair cut

Without grazing animals to keep it in check, the grass grows long and fast, especially when we have a good dose of rain around Christmas. We could not walk through the middle field or the top field and so Bob wa scalled in with his 160HP slasher to give the 2 main fields a scalp. Bob got me up in the air conditioned cab whilst he negotiated the small trees planted in these fields.

The result is shown in the third picture. We can walk across the fields. More usefully, I was able to put poles in to show where the new trees will go this winter. We used rakes to pile up the cut grass into mounds to start getting the soil ready for planting. That will make the job a bit easier when the trees arrive. The plan is to have an avenue of trees running parallel to the small valley that goes through the middle field. Natives will go on the South side of the path , then a row of figs to the right, with apples in the next row.