A longer, colder than usual winter has consequences. Fruit tree pruning has been delayed at least a month in Upstate New York. Our friend Gini said she once pruned in snow shoes. I got started a few days ago. It’s still freezing overnight, as low as 10 degrees on March 29. Our small farm came […]
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Everything is running late this year because of the unusually harsh winter. We’re finally getting around to pruning the trees in our fruit orchard with a helpful assist from our friend Gini, the closest thing we know to an arborist. Otherwise, we wouldn’t have a clue what to do. Our farm property came with an […]
Do you prune your tomato plants? In the past, we enclosed our tomatoes in big cages made of concrete reinforcing wire and let then grow wild. By mid-summer, they didn’t look great–all that wilted foliage–but they were making great tomatoes. So who cares what they look like? Well, this year we decided to try a […]
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