[AT] Check planting

[Richard Walker]

>I have been trying to figure out what check planting is and after 
>searching it seems to me as it is the same as we used to plant 
>orange trees in Orange County, California. The trees were planted 20 
>feet apart both up
>and down and across.

Whereabouts in Orange County, Ernst?  We used to grow citrus near the 
Culver's Corner area of Irvine.  Granddad set our trees out in the 
twenties using the old-fashioned 24x24 spacing that was standard at 
the time for most orange groves.  I would guess your 20x20 spacing 
might have been planted a little later, when growers were starting to 
feel the land crunch and trying harder to maximize production by 
planting more trees per acre.

Merry Christmas to the list and thanks very much, Spencer, for 
getting us all together.  In fact I was just thinking about that last 
week.  Was hitching up to Don Bowen's trailer (stored indefinitely at 
my place, but I have usage rights!) to haul a small skid 
steer.  Needed a third center loading ramp because of the narrow 
width of the skid steer, so tossed a length of heavy channel (part of 
a TD18 frame) that John Parks had given me in the back of my 
truck.  Then the lights on one side of the trailer didn't work and 
could have sworn I heard Farmer's voice in the background "Check your 
grounds, check your grounds!"  Sure enough, rusty connection where 
the light was bolted to the frame.


Richard



Richard & Judy Walker
Monrovia, CA

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