Our Second Walk-through

Posted by Aug 15, 2023

We had our second walk-through on Saturday, August 12.  Most of the visitors were in the Master Gardener program and already had a strong foundation in fruit trees.  We discussed many aspects of the orchard, including rootstock, spraying, pruning, tree form and grafting.   The use of comfrey as a green mulch, nitrogen fixer, and weed […]

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A piece of the pie

Posted by Aug 8, 2023

  A few pests have reared their ugly head this year. Currently birds are causing a fair amount of damage with their pecks. I pulled at least 20 Golden Delicious apples off before I took the initiative to fight fire with fire. First I added metallic looking pinwheels. No help there–bites were right beside the […]

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