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Originally Posted by Attila
I think it's time to put him to work. It's never too early to start.
Teach him how to inspect the soil of each of your trees daily, and tag the trees that need to be watered on that day. Every day he does that correctly, you will pay him a salary (a few bucks) which he can save in his piggybank. There is nothing like this kind of positive reinforcement to stimulate a kid. And he can learn very early the value of a good work.
Good looking kid, by the way!.
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Attila,
He's way past that. He ALREADY waters them!!! His little azalea just got dead-headed a couple of weeks ago, and we MAY do some wiring. He has already been trimming it for two years (he's five). I have to watch him closely. The other day - I swear to this - I was cutting back a san jose juniper, and within ten minutes of starting, I couldn't find any "cuttings". I looked over in my shade area and there he had the cuttings putting them in bonsai soil in some training pots (like twelve cuttings to a ten inch pot) just like I do (except for the heel cut). Kids amaze me!!!
I don't know about that "paying" stuff. He hit one of my big bonsai (a privet) with a baseball the other day. It hit his aluminum bat (
twIIIIng) and then the privet's trunk (
knock) [onomatopoeias] and I didn't lose my mind.
I figured that was pretty good.
Thanks for the kind remarks. Yeah, he's a good-looking kid. He takes after mommy (Thank God).
John