June 12, 2025

Today in the orchard


Today we sprayed the orchards with a smorgasbord of who's who in the organic and weird spray world: Surround, Cueva, Dipel, Regalia, Cal-plus and several pungent herb teas (proprietary blend). It was Skylar’s first experience spraying the trees. The sprayer decided not to cooperate, and the tractor even stopped and wouldn’t start again until we did some begging and pleading. Laura and I spent a few hours doing major adjustments to the sprayer mid-stream before completing our original task. But, we did it. And, you could hear the trees cheering us on. Hail to the sprayers!