If you think that fruit just grows on trees then you are 100% wrong! There is a lot of work that goes into growing good quality fruit. I know. Today I walked around and sprayed all our fruit trees to protect them against insects and fungus. We have various apple trees, peach trees, pear trees, plum trees and cherry trees.
Now if we were still a commercial operation we would have a tractor and a mechanical sprayer, but we are not. We are a small family of two with an acre of land with 35 fruit trees and grapes. What does this mean? It means that you use a hand held, hand pumped sprayer and that you carry it all the time you are spraying. I will tell you that 2 gallons gets pretty heavy!
After the back breaking work of digging the vegetable garden I thought I was pretty much off the hook for any more heavy work for the rest of the year. How wrong I was.
I do not say this often, but I miss all the work that Hubby does around here.
Shhhhh! Don’t tell him I told you that because he will never let me live that down. I am always complaining about how much I do and how he doesn’t do anything. I tell him that if he worked half as hard as I did he might actually appreciate me a little more. So it’s quite a shock to find myself in this position.
The thing is, he actually enjoys doing all the spraying and pruning and stuff to the trees. He thinks it’s relaxing. Ha! It’s not what I think is relaxing.
I think sitting by a pool of warm swimmable water, eating a frozen “Milky Way” candy bar is relaxing. Not spraying a bunch of fruit trees and sweating and getting all yicky.
No the water and the candy bar thing sound ever so much better!