Cammy and I completed spraying Surround on a couple dozen Finley Lane apple trees that we missed the other day. The warmer temperatures mean the Plum Curculios are almost certainly out and about. Time to cover the trees with a good spray of Surround. I’ll spray again in a week or so.

It’s also time to plant the potatoes. We had selected our favorite potatoes from the root cellar a few weeks ago and then “chitted” them in crates in the living room, covered with cloth to keep out the light. That process gets them growing. Then today, Cammy laid them in the trenches we had dug and filled with compost and covered them with soil. In a few days after a good rain (please) we’ll cover them with a thick layer of hay mulch to keep down the weeds and keep in the moisture.