Youth Nights Continue…

It’s been about five weeks since we finished the pruning and switched over to having the various Stake youth help us on Wednesday nights. Most of the work is painting the tree trunks, clearing rocks between the trees, or raking the cuttings from the trees into the center of the rows where they can be mulched. This effort by the youth is a tremendous help to the regular service missionaries. The clearing of the rocks are needed to prevent damage to our lawn mowers, the painting of the tree trunks protect the trees from any herbicides that are used to clear weeds between the trees. Keeping the area between the trees weed free is important because several times during the summer months fertilizer is tossed into the area of the tree trunk. Better to feed the trees than the weeds.
The youth will continue to come each Wednesday night up to at least when we start harvesting. The schedule for each stake is posted on the calendar for the orchard. Thinning of the trees will start on or about May 22.