A break in the weather in the afternoon allowed us to get outside to have a real go at "Planting". Some very crooked lines on our sloping sites. We tried 2 of the recommended planting patterns. In retrospect we would have liked to have been better set up for this because of the sites we could have done with clearer plans on paper and more markers.
Our inexperience really showed and we spent quite some time later trying to re-establish the patterns where we couldn't actually sight across the whole site due to brows and other obstacles. Drawing and plotting the trees and their locations on our crude maps took longer than we anticipated. This information will be transferred to the computer and hopefully put on a scanned image of our property where it can be updated easier and quicker.
We wondered who would show up, not only because of the weather but also because the newspaper article stated that the next Workshop was to be held on a neighbour's property. She was not impressed! Mount Ruapehu was erupting and showering ash over the land. A real problem for those using rainwater off roof as gutters had to be cleaned.
