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[Robert Walton <waltonrp AT gmail.com>]

I'm undecided whether I'll irrigate mine. They are kind of far from
water. Hopefully, this year will not be horribly dry.

Rob - Va
knock on wood

> If the rain continues, I'll be digging trenches....
> Yes, if we don't get rain for a week, or get a lot of rain, I will be
> wetting them down.  Yesterday I developed a system of sorts, using 5
> gallon buckets and my 8 cu ft wheelbarrow.  I fill up the bucket and the
> barrow and carry the water down to the front.  I then bucket the water
> from the barrow to the trees.  A 5 gallon bucket does about 3 trees, and
> it takes two wheelbarrow trips to do all the trees.
>