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Fruit Tree Fence

4/21/2013

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Phew it feels good to finally get a project finished, so many things at the moment seems to get started only to grind to a halt (such is the way with all DIY projects!). We now have our fruit tree fence up and finished, Rich's back is buggered again and I've wrecked my knee, so not to bad on the injury front!

Heres where we where Saturday morning...
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Rich heroically managed to hammer the posts we brought from the local garden centre in, these weren't cheap but it is a local independent place so I don't mind giving them my pennies! We brought three 8 foot poles and two 5 foot ones for bracing, which we bolted in place.
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Our very nice next-door neighbour who shares this bounty with us (and who has spend the last 8 years having to cut the bloody Hawthorn, poor guy!) donated the galvanised wire we used which was excellent and saved us a small fortune.

I realise these two pictures make it look like this all took about 10 minuets, it actually book us from 9am till about 2pm to get this far!

Once the wire was up and in place I could finally plant the trees I have spend the last year training...
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Wow, those trees where so ready to get out of their pots, I hope they will be nice and happy in their new homes with much more room to grow. We wont be able to let them fruit this year as we want them to put their energy into making good root stocks rather they fruiting themselves to death so it will be a while before they can be properly productive. As with any fruit trees they are a long term investment.
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I am so so proud of us for finally get this little project finished as I have been going on about it for over a year. I love how it all came together in the end, a big thank you to my Mum for giving us a week of her holiday to come and be lacerated by our hedge and for making endless tea runs when we where flagging!  Another big thank you to the folks at Victoriana Nursery Gardens for supply us with these wonderful trees (which at one point over the winter I was sure I'd managed to kill!). I will put a list of the various trees we have used and some links up if it stops raining long enough for me to nip out and check the labels!

I cant wait to watch these lovely plants mature and grow over the coming years!
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