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My Favorite Time Of Spring
May 8th
First hydrangea blossoms opening right now.
Perfect WeatherThis last week has been fantastic. The weather is warm enough to work outside and the humidity is still low. The gardens are bursting into bloom. I have snapdragons, carnations, dianthus, pansies, and petunias already in bloom. The hydrangeas first blossoms opened yesterday. My lilies have buds all over them.
Cornucopia In The MakingThe trees have leafed out. The berry bushes are making berries. The grapes have buds on them. Best of all one of the peach trees we planted two years ago is covered in little peaches. We even have on plum on one More >
Pruning
Feb 27th
Just a couple days ago I got an email from one of the suppliers I use and they had a video on how to prune your grape vines. After watching the video I realized that I had really messed up with my vines and it would probably take a couple years to get them producing well.
I have a big problem with pruning. I always feel that if the plant has gone to all the work to grow, then who am I to hack them back and try to control them. I’m having to get over this now that we’re putting More >
Planting Fruit Trees In Fall
Sep 9th
Now’s a great time to put in an order for bare root fruit trees. If you live someplace where the soil doesn’t freeze until late November or December that’s even better. Putting in fruit trees in the fall can really give them a great start. Instead of having to take off and make leaves and fruit right after planting, they get a whole winter to put down roots.
One thing you need to do with fruit trees planted in the fall, and really any time, is protect the trunk from the sun. In the winter the dark bark can warm up More >
Doing Surgery On Your Plants
Aug 8th
Carefully trimmed trees have created this interesting tree tunnel.
For me, at least, it is always hard to do “surgery” on any of my beloved plants. Even though I know trimming out dead growth, diseased portions, or just for shape is necessary, and good, I always have to apologize to them first.
Lucky for me I don’t have to don surgical scrubs or gloves to do the work. However, having really good sharp tools is just as important for plant “surgery” as people surgery. If you use dull tools you can do more damage than good and even create access for more diseases More >
Fruit Trees
Jan 21st
This is also the time to order bare root fruit trees. They’ll be shipped to you at the proper time for planting in your area. Bare root trees are usually small, but they will very soon catch up to the larger, more expensive and hard to ship older trees. Also, for some reason they seem to be more resilient to transplanting. I’ve lost fewer bare root saplings than their two or three year old siblings in pots.
Make sure the varieties you want will do well in your area. Trees require diligence in pruning, fruit removal and processing (once they get More >