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Hola! Last year I planted the first plot of my syntropic/food forest, around October 15th. Around 600 trees. Here, summer is very hot, and September always have some heavy heavy rain (cold drop). So last year I waited to the heavy rain to pass away and then I planted my trees, some weeks after it. Clay was hard as hell, I did the 600 holes and it was super hard, and I did install drip irrigation, all by myself.
I learned some lessons so for this year I decided to outsource some help to make my life easier. First, I waited for the “cold drop” to pass away. Then I ordered trees and bushes. I hired a guy for installing the irrigation, taking the deip from the underground well to the new plot. And another guy to help me clear weeds. And rotavate, so I could plant the trees basically open a hole with my hands. I had to wait 3 weeks since the rain until the tractor could work the area. Life was looking good. Tractor came one day to subsolate and was supposed to come back some days later to rotavate.
And then, absolutely unexpected, a new heavy rain, cold drop, so everything became mud.
I know that you cant rotavate after a heavy rain like this one, neither plant, as you create air holes. And I guess that I should wait 3 weeks again in order to call the tractor again. The problem is, it is raining again! And I have hundreds of trees waiting. Some came in pots, so I am treating them like any other plant. And some came bare root, so I have them in the garage, watering them every couple of days or three.
But I see the horizon with lots lf rain and I am wondering how to keep on with the plan. I dont want to keep waiting until winter, I am afraid of having casualties before I can rotavate, but neither I want to have the nightmare of planting again in hard conditions like last year.
I was wondering that maybe in some days I could not rotavate, but the soil will be soft and drier, easier to work. I dont mean planting tomorrow, but maybe give it a week or so.
What do you think? What would you do?
I learned some lessons so for this year I decided to outsource some help to make my life easier. First, I waited for the “cold drop” to pass away. Then I ordered trees and bushes. I hired a guy for installing the irrigation, taking the deip from the underground well to the new plot. And another guy to help me clear weeds. And rotavate, so I could plant the trees basically open a hole with my hands. I had to wait 3 weeks since the rain until the tractor could work the area. Life was looking good. Tractor came one day to subsolate and was supposed to come back some days later to rotavate.
And then, absolutely unexpected, a new heavy rain, cold drop, so everything became mud.
I know that you cant rotavate after a heavy rain like this one, neither plant, as you create air holes. And I guess that I should wait 3 weeks again in order to call the tractor again. The problem is, it is raining again! And I have hundreds of trees waiting. Some came in pots, so I am treating them like any other plant. And some came bare root, so I have them in the garage, watering them every couple of days or three.
But I see the horizon with lots lf rain and I am wondering how to keep on with the plan. I dont want to keep waiting until winter, I am afraid of having casualties before I can rotavate, but neither I want to have the nightmare of planting again in hard conditions like last year.
I was wondering that maybe in some days I could not rotavate, but the soil will be soft and drier, easier to work. I dont mean planting tomorrow, but maybe give it a week or so.
What do you think? What would you do?
