One of the most interesting plantings of the Spring 2012 was a Black Chokeberry planting in Harrison County. HRF transplanted 7500 Chokeberry plants into a converted cropfield.
Aside from the planting, HRF also installed nearly 5.5 miles of half inch irrigation tubing that will later have individual water emitters for each plant. This method will hopefully get the plants through some of our more dry and hot summers. HRF engineered and built it’s own device to help disperse the 1000 foot roles of tubing without tangles, kinks, or other mishaps.
After the tubing was installed, HRF dispersed nearly 75,000 lbs of mulch to provide each plant with mulching. The landowner will return later to fill in between each plant.
This was certainly a very labor intensive project but we hope it was worth it for the landowner to start seeing the plants produce berries in the next few years.
