Friday 15 June 2012

D’oh The Sheep ate the Pine Saplings

Well, who’d have thought that sheep would eat trees? OK so I’ve seen that trees in sheep paddocks tend to have no lower branches, but I thought that that was because sheep broke the branches to get under the trees for shade. I never would have believed that it was because they ate them.

Five holes in the ground with some potting mix mixed in and no little saplings left. Bummer.

Well, today we went out and bought a couple of Grevillia Grandiflora and I put them in grow tubes so that the sheep don’t have such an easy time of eating them. One by the boundary fence to add to the general wind break, and another by the sheep pen to provide the sheep with some shade when they are locked in the pen awaiting the shearer (the shearer sheers Gary and drenches our three sheep).

Hopefully, the sheep won’t try too hard to eat the new saplings.

The pine trees that we planted in the bottom paddock are all doing fine. One of them has lost it’s tip, so it’s likely to struggle a bit and probably throw out co-dominant stems.

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