Digging season has started

It's that very busy time of year at the nursery.  Anyone in this industry will tell you there are just not enough hours in the day or enough energy in the tank to get it all done.  I have been busy tagging trees so that our crews can dig them for our orders.  As a municipal nursery we are unique in that our customer may be our Forestry districts, but it is also the person who has that tree in front of their home that the city owns and maintains for the pleasure of all.  These are our tree lilacs and ornamental pears which are just a small amount of the nearly 1,500 trees we will dig balled and burlap.  Since we ship directly to the yards that plant, we also do several hundred trees as bare root.  The crews are efficient in moving these into their sites, and can do the job quicker with less soil to handle along the whole path from field to planting site.  The trees are "heeled in" to chips and kept watered until they can be put in to their permanent home.  I will try and share some photos from our operations to give you an idea how this all takes place.  I just need the time to stop and do it one of these days.