Apricots. Irrigation. Buffaloberries.

This evening I finally moved the last of the irrigation pipes out of the hayfield and into the pastures.  The hay is ready to cut, and the alfalfa is blooming.   If I wasn't irrigating I would cut the hay right now.  To speed things up, the last so many days I moved the pipes to every other valve, not to all the valves.  This sped me up a couple of days. Now that the last of the pipes are out of the hayfield I need to wait a number of days for the hayfield to dry.  Otherwise it will be hard to cut.

Days ago when the irrigation pipes were in the fruit tree area I noticed the apricot tree had a number of apricots.  Getting apricots each year is hit or miss.   My apricot tree is the first tree to bloom in the Spring, before all the other fruit trees.   Blooming early can be a problem as the cold, or rain, or that the bees aren't as active yet, can lead to missed pollination.   This year is the most apricots I ever got, by far.  Which is good as I love apricots.

When picking the apricots I saw on the buffaloberry trees they had seeds.  Not enough to make jam.  Buffaloberries aren't that great to eat raw.

The buffaloberry trees had expanded with new trees this year.  I think by root.  They really expanded this year and were now growing all around my apricot tree.  I spent time cutting and removing a number of new buffaloberry trees away from the apricot tree.