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Fruit Tree Site Selection, Planting, & Aftercare
A guide to getting your tree into the ground.
So you bought a fruit tree and managed to get it home unharmed. Congratulations on your new arrival! Now what?
Overexposed! When Your Fruit Develops A Sunburn.
What to do with sun damaged fruit still hanging on the tree? Should you remove it or just leave it alone? Is the fruit salvageable or is it all destined for the compost pile?
Horror, Shock, & Premature Fruit Drop: A Guide To Thinning Fruitlets
So many blooms, so many fruitlets! Learn how and why hand thinning of fruitlets will help your harvest! Come along - it’s easy we promise!
An Apple Lover’s Guide To Storing Your Harvest
Get the most out of your apple harvest! Proper produce storage is easy to learn as long as you keep these three things in mind….
Organic Codling Moth Control
One of the most troublesome of all apple and pear pests an organic orchardist might expect to encounter is the CODLING MOTH aka Cydia pomonella. If you only learn about one orchard pest this year, let it be this one.
Fruit Buds And Floating Apples!
Do you know how to identify FRUIT BUDS on your apple and pear trees? Knowing where your tree plans to produce fruit is an important first step when it comes to pruning!
Orchard Hygiene: Creepy Crawlies & Mummies Be Gone!
Your beautiful orchard is teeming with all kinds of creepy crawly critters & fungal covered mummies!
Eeek, ewe, very spooky!
Kaboom! It’s A Red-Fleshed Apple Explosion 💥
Hold onto your horses! Could this really be the healthiest apple of them all? Crabapples on pizza? What next!?
August In The Arboretum
Mouth Watering Recipes To Inspire Your Bounty!
Highlights Of The Harvest This Month:
Apples, Pears, Aronia, Elderberry, & Cornelian Cherry
How And When To Harvest Apples & Pears
Phew ~It’s Getting Ripe In Here! How MATURE Are You Feeling Today? Is It Still Too Early, Or Is This Joke Just Past It’s Prime?
Scratching The Surface
Watercore, Codling Moth, Bruising, Oh my! Read on to learn about the joys of UGLY FRUIT!
Woodpeckers: Orchard Friend Or Foe?
That unmistakable tap tap tapping sound. A woodpecker drilling away at one of the trees in your beloved orchard. Is it time for panic or celebration?
UPCOMING HANDS-ON WORKSHOPS