Rain and more Pawpaw planting at SAFF

Finally got a good soaking rain at the farm. The ground has softened making planting much easier.

So far, we have planted 42 pawpaw trees. Yesterday we planted two more seedlings from Rockfish River natives in the main orchard and seven from select Edible Landscaping fruit. We are a bit less than halfway done but we are happy to get more in the ground later today while the earth is still soft from the recent rain. We checked on all of the previously planted seedlings —and a couple had been dug up a bit but the roots appeared intact so we replaced the dirt and watered them back in and hope for the best.

Nine seedlings we planted yesterday in the orchard at the bottom of North Trail.
Persimmons getting closer to ripeness at the top near the driveway.
Taken from the Pawpaw Peninsula looking towards the main Pawpaw patch of SAFF wild native trees. They are going dormant for the winter.
One of our seedlings. They look so pleased to be in the ground finally. Because of the draught, we were going to wait until spring to plant them but are glad we opted to get them in the ground now. They look awesome.
Argiope aurantia, Yellow garden spider, found up top next to shed.

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