Hello everyone,
As I have said in posts I am into Bonsai and I have enough area to get into it at different level than most. I have a 50x50 foot pad of wood chip that I created from some wood chips that a tree removal company was dumping on my lot. It was the perfect place to grow trees as the wood chips were easy to dig in and they provided ease of moving and up rooting of potted trees. That was 10 years ago, and now the wood chips have rotted into some very nice dirt. And what grows in good dirt, out side ... Weeds. The past few years fighting the weeds has been a non-stop battle. I finally covered as much of the garden with ground cover sheets, and this coming year I will find out if that helps.
Here it is, under about 2 feet of snow. The chain link fence area I abandon because the snow drifts very deep as it gets towards the camara. Deep snow crushes the trees in the spring and I had many that were destroyed from this. Behind that is another fenced in area that protects from the voles and rabbits. It has all the bigger trees and fruit trees I am growing. The brownish box on the right, is a container I made to protect seedlings. Reused the screening from the rotting chicken coop on my lot. Made a 10x3 foot encloser which really made a difference last year as I lost no trees to mice or birds. They love fresh sprouted trees and will eat them or pull them out of the ground. Snow machine tracks can be seen going around the trees and on the horizon is my neighbor, about 1 km away.
I will not be able to post much more on this adventure until spring but I do have some indoor Bonsai as well and guess what? It is transplant and trimming time for several of them. I plan to post the transplanting's or trimmings as they happen over the next couple of months.
Best
