There are many reasons why you might want to build your own Air Prune bed. Follow along with these steps and you will have your own Air Prune bed built in no time. These are steps I followed when I built my air prune bed. Of course your bed size can be adjusted to fit […]
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One of the most utilitarian trees I grow is the black locust. Black locust is a very polarizing tree, some people go running for their soap box screaming invasive while others see it as a blessing. At our farm we see Black locust as a perfect tree to grow from seed in our air prune […]
How to Grow Blueberries: Annual Care
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 […]
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. […]