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Staking a Young Fruit Tree: Video
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.
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 […]
Road Trip to John W. Hershey’s Defunct Tree Crop Nursery
Today I visited the old nursery remnants of John W. Hershey’s Downingtown, PA tree crops nursery. J. Russell Smith, author of Tree Crops, mentions John W. Hershey’s now defunct tree nursery in his book repeatedly. From what I can gather John Hershey worked tirelessly toward the improvement of native fruit and nut trees in the region. Much […]
6 Months of Fruit: A fruit by Season Guide
After the recent article about choosing the right blueberry varieties for expanding your harvest I got a lot of questions about expanding the harvest in general. Most of the questions have revolved around what plants or trees to select if your goal is to be picking fruit all summer long. With that premise in mind […]