How important is it to stake fruit trees? Staking a fruit tree that is this young often seems like overkill, but training young fruit trees is important for your trees health and longevity.
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How to Start Tree Seeds for Seed: Seed Scarification Video
Winter Maintenance in the Orchard
Winter has officially arrived in the Northeast. With temperatures hitting low single digits it looks like it is here to stay. If you have fruit trees or are considering getting some don’t think just because it’s winter your tree work is over! Having backyard fruit trees is a wonderful blessing but it’s not all picking […]
Disrupting Pests in the Orchard without Sprays Part 2
Let’s continue by discussing the details of how, why, and when to range animals under fruit and nut trees. We spoke to the why, that is to interrupt the pest cycle so that you are the ones enjoying the ripening fruit instead of a rotting larvae filled ball of mush. Next is the how. When ranging […]
How to Disrupt Pests without Sprays
It is late summer and if you have trees producing fruit chances are you have asked yourself this questions once or twice before. If this is your first season with fruit don’t be bummed out because we can help you stop the pest cycle without using toxic sprays. I have been getting a ton of […]
Dormant Pruning: Why you need to Prune your Trees!
Check out this dormant pruning video we did last winter. Here I am pruning this large elderberry plant. Not only is pruning necessary for your plants and trees you can also turn the prunings into new plants! Pruning is an essential part of our fall and winter schedule here on the farm. Dormant pruning accomplishes […]
Fruit Trees with No Fruit?!? Here’s how to Solve the Mystery
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, and above all and probably why you planted them in the first place is the potential fruit […]
What to do with a Forgotten Orchard
I have been getting so many questions lately I have decided to share them here so that we can all learn from each others questions. I am calling them Edible Questions and it should be a weekly deal provided the questions keep coming. So if you have any edible plant and tree questions email me […]