From the Farm — tree hedging in the Southeast

摘要

By way of some background information, we started renovating or converting many of our old orchards to new varieties as many as 20 years ago. The orchards we are farming were planted in the early 20th century, around 1920, give or take. Of course without the fertilizer, pest control and irrigation methods of today, they grew very slowly, but grow they did and at 70 years of age plus had evolved into very large trees that were shading themselves out, as well as being difficult to spray and shake. We decided that something had to done, which we felt was tree replacement.