Enlarging the orchard

While the digger was still here we had him remove the stumps from the land we had cleared next to where we had planted all the citrus trees.

Instead of having him bury the stumps as he did in the backyard, we had him just pile them up and we were going to pick through the piles and cart the stumps to the dump. Wow, what a job that turned out to be. They weigh you when you take them to the recycling center. We ended up taking 8 truck loads which totaled 3.5 tons. My poor back.

But we got it cleared and leveled - digger came back to help in getting it leveled with a smaller tractor.

And now the planting begins. Guess what these are? Yeah, we are going to have bananas.

We have two figs planted. We plan to follow Tony Deus's father's pruning advice and flatten off the top when they get bigger so it will be easier to pick the fruit.

A close-up shows that they have little figs on them already.

Finally, we got some Avacado planted - Guacamoli galore.

We got room for another 10 trees so we are hunting for Persimmon, Pomegranate, Guava, Pecan, etc.