"little guy" or l g to the initiated is a rescue maple tree i pretty much stole from a cornfield at a good friend's behest to keep him from being done in by the combine...potted in my back yard he has prospered the past three years and this autumn it was clearly tine to move him to a larger home until a permanent residence can be procured...
knowing this was coming i obtained a larger container earlier this year and today i took it to the north side of the house and drilled sufficient drainage holes...
i added a mixture of cow manure compost and seed starting mix ( to act as a filler to help keep the compost from compacting ) and went to get little guy...
the extraction was more difficult than i had anticipated...
because he was reasonably pot bound...
which is why his new home is deeper and bigger in diameter...
i loosened the soil around his roots so they would know they could move around come spring...
put him in his new home and finished the fill with a straight shot of compost to feed the growing boy next season...
i had been gathering leaves to mulch the ramp bed and kept going while i was at it...
so that he and the ramps have a snug blanket of maple, mulberry, and catalpa leaves...
that done i took the bee house ( in its parasite proof mesh bag ) and all the hard work the girls did this past summer to my daughter and son's-in-law unheated garage to winter over and hatch out in the back yard next june...more season's end chores accomplished...i'm taking the rest of the day off.
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