More trees

Today 250 willows from Germany arrived. After loosing many willows every year which all came from the same place in Yorkshire I decided to try something different this year.

The parcel took 5 days to arrive.

In good old German fashion the parcel arrived neatly and extremely well packed.

To give the trees the best start after the journey I put them in a tub and added some rainwater.

I ordered 150 Salix viminalis and received 188. I also ordered 100 Salix americana and received 111. Thank you for the extras Mr. Scheffel !

Although it was getting dark I started planting around the soakaway. The chickens are doing a good job at scratching up the grass.

Grey water system

Finally SEPA (Scottish Environment Protection Agency) has come back and approved of our greywater treatment system. All I have to do now is convince the nice building control officers that I can construct and install a home made straw and woodchip filter to "British standards".

In the meantime I have started planting trees in the greywater discharge area and made a small "soakaway". Of course nothing will soak away as the ground water level is just 10-20cm below the surface this time of year. So the trees will have to grow quickly and soak up all the water coming out of our house. The soakaway is just there to prevent land movement over time.