Summer’s here, and every long hot day brings your fruit trees closer to reap. However, from bugs to sunshine, there are many summertime risks to a tree’s health. With some extra care now, many potential problems are often minimized or prevented altogether. Protecting Your Tree Trunk wraps are useful tools to stop a spread of […]
Pruning Science: How Trees Heal
In the truest sense of the word, trees don’t “heal.” they are doing not repair and regenerate tissue as animals do; rather they compartmentalize damaged tissue with specialized cells, and grow new healthy wood around the damage. The damage itself isn’t repaired; it’s simply separated by a physical barrier of cells to stay any infection […]
Achieving Good Soil Drainage
Maintaining proper soil moisture levels is important to stay your plants healthy, and a serious think about achieving this is often your soil’s drainage. Soil that drains too quickly will need to be watered more frequently if not improved. Soil that drains too slowly can cause a spread of problems including compaction, poor aeration, stunted […]
Attracting Pollinators to the Garden
Many of our favorite fruits and vegetables require pollinators. Fortunately, you don’t get to keep a beehive to make sure that your fruit trees and kitchen garden produce an abundant harvest of apples, peaches, strawberries, cucumbers, or melons. By attracting honeybees, native bees, butterflies, moths, and other pollinators, you’ll help your garden and therefore the […]
When to Prune Fruit Trees
Question: I just planted a couple of fruit trees. When is that the best time of year to prune them? Answer: The time of year that you simply plan to prune your trees will depend upon your reasons for pruning and environmental considerations. For your tree’s first year, you ought to limit your pruning to […]
