Unfortunately it’s not all about picking berries. Blueberry bushes, like all perennial fruit and berries require maintenance from time to time. This growing great blueberry segment focuses on pruning, fertility, and weeding in the blueberry patch. It’s not glamorous but this is the hard work that makes picking delicious berries so enjoyable! Pruning People get […]
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How to Grow Great Blueberries! Soil pH
It’s no secret blueberries are one of my favorite snacks. I love them so much that I grow hundreds of them every year. In the early years I had plants that failed to thrive, plants didn’t die but they never really took off either. Plants would get a few berries each year, way fewer berries […]
Getting Rid of Weeds in Your Garden Bed
Today’s video is all about getting weeds and grass out of your planting beds. Try this easy method to get rid of unwanted weeds in just a few minutes. This method of removing weeds from planting beds is similar to sheet mulching. After identifying the weeds we remove an mulch that we want to save. […]
Winter Fig Tree Care
Growing trees is a long term deal. That the apple tree planted today needs to be cared for and looked after before it produces fruit for us. Fig trees, while they usually bear fruit sooner than most fruits, require this same care. Here in the Northeast we are right on the outer edge of most […]
Fig Tree Basics
Figs often get a bad wrap. It must be a combination of fig newtons (yuck) and the fact that most people have never tasted a fresh fig. Trust me fig newtons don’t hold a candle to a tree ripened fig! Fig trees will grow in the southern half of the country without much winter care, […]
Why aren’t my fruit trees producing fruit? And how to fix it!
So you planted a few fruit trees and for some reason you still haven’t gotten any fruit, what gives? Fruit trees have many benefits and uses: enhancing the beauty of the landscape, bird habit, pollen sources for bees, above all and probably why you planted them in the first place is the potential fruit yield. […]
Fall is Chestnut Season
The Chestnut in America: History and Future A hundred years ago American Chestnuts were the titan of the eastern forest. Trees so big nothing short of the Redwood compares. Trees that made grown men look like toddlers standing in front of. Each fall Chestnuts would cover the forest floor making it difficult to walk without […]
Fall Abundance: Hickory Nuts
Fall in the Northeast is a time of abundance. Unquestionably my favorite season, fall provides a bounty unlike no other. A phrase I’ve heard from a well known naturalist brings fall in the Northeast into perspective, “Beware of Falling Food”. This couldn’t be more true than when we talk about going out and harvesting nuts, […]