by George Collins » Sat May 12, 2012 9:02 pm
The symbolic last nut was planted early this morning. Symbolic only in that it was the last nut to be planted on the final full row. There are still a few holes that will need to be filled in, a couple spots we skipped the first time through because of an unfavorable microclimate, etc.
As soon as that one, last nut went in, we returned to the first row we planted and started replanting those that didn't perform on the first pass through the field. An accurate count is more difficult because we can no longer simply count every flag between known beginning and ending points but my best estimate is we planted a total of forty nuts today.
Matt, as I dug into each hole where the nut failed to manifest a viable seedling, there was much opportunity to examine what may have caused the spontaneous desiccation previously described. However, I found no discern able pattern.
Some were in clay, some were in sand.
Some were planted relatively low, some high.
Some protected, others exposed.
Some had been heavily mulched, some barely so.
That is to say, I don't get it.
All I know to do is plug another seed into each hole and hope for a better result the second time around.
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