How many ways can you ....
...cook an egg? 
...skin a cat? 
No!
How many ways can you work on a tree tube!!
Yes - after some respite it was back to tree tube maintenance for the NCVs. This time at Day Ash Farm. But it wasn't a day of splitting tubes. Nor was it a day of unwrapping spirals. It wasn't even a day of weeding tubes (well, there was a bit of that).
"But what else can you possibly do to a tree tube?" I hear you ask.
You can EXTEND them! Read how below....
The problem to be solved - trees being chomped
by deer as they grow above the rim of their half size tubes.
The solutions to the problem?
Either exchange the tube for a loooonger one or....
..squish an extension into the existing tube.
Ingenious or what?
Once the longer sticks ran out, two
short ones were joined together.
Et voila!!
There were NCVs working in pairs or
individually.
The area had to be combed carefully
to find the trees hidden amongst the
tall grasses, brambles and thistles.
Often extreme measures had to
be taken to reveal the trees.
The plantation stretched a long way to
woodland at the top of the hill, so there was
a good deal of combing done.
resources can you carry in one trip' competition.
This NCV searched for the holes
she had just cut into the tree tube
and took a while to find them.
Ah. Now this tree did need a bit of weeding
before it was put back in a tube.
Cakes were provided by Liz and Tony's
wife, Alwin. Thanks for that!!
To ensure that said cakes remained dry in the
morning rain, this classy buffet tent was erected .
(Perhaps it could be hired out for weddings?)
By 3pm the exhausted NCVs swept back
down the hillside, collecting up unused mini-tubes...
....leaving behind a plantation of extended
tubes, as far as the eye could see.
That should keep the deer at bay for a couple of years.
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