Pruning and Periwinkles

I think two pruning workshops in two weeks turned out to be a very. good. idea.  This is Steve pruning a peach  tree.  He showed us cherry, peach, and apple before it started raining.  One big lesson here is that I won't need to use the entire area I have saved for orchard on the orchard, which is nice.  His dwarf trees are 6 feet apart.

I came home all fired up to prune some more, but the weather was still yukky, alternating snow and rain and hail.  I didn't move any dirt this weekend either.  But I did make significant progress on a few sewing projects I hope to have out of the way before the weather turns warm.

The periwinkles are out!  I was curious about them because they are near a large red pine I had pushed over last summer.  The tree is gone but the flowers survived.  Chives are another plant that still remains strong despite near total removal of their last summer's home.