[Tania]

drew, thank you! This is a great information about orchards and wood chips.

So far I do not have too much info to share about our tree trees, as they were just planted in June 2014 and heavily mulched with fresh wood chips. The only thing I can report if that we never watered the young trees since we put them in, and there is not much rain here in summer (no rain since July 20). The soil moisture is remarkable under the mulch, and the trees have been putting up growth.