It’s officially summer of 2019, and it’s time for a peach update. This April we planted a bare-root Veteran peach (along with a few other new fruit trees) and unfortunately it never showed any sign of life. Everything else is doing great, putting on leaves and blooming. You know what…
It’s winter of 2018, and the seed catalogs are starting to arrive. We expanded the garden in May of 2018 with the help of my awesome family, so we have room for a few more fruit trees. We had wanted some apple trees that were specifically for cider making, so…
When we think about peaches, I think we all remember our favorite song..the one about ripe peaches growing in the shady forest? Biting into a peach wearing a summery outfit of brown Carhartt bibs and a puffy jacket? Maybe that’s just me. But also when I think about peaches, I…
I can ignore a few holes in my lettuce leaves or the occasional blemish from a hungry bug, but I can’t STAND aphids. It seems like they pick a fruit tree to colonize each year, with their ants helping them along. Sometimes a thorough spraying with the hose will help,…
During our first winter as homeowners, we plotted what fruit trees we would plant in the spring. “Apples, of course. Apples like chill hours. And pears would be practical. And an edible crabapple to help pollinate them.” We bought a Honeycrisp apple and a Honeygold apple, which are very cold…