Fruit Trees & Berries
Planting today for harvests in the years ahead.
Fruit trees and berry plants require patience, planning, and ongoing care, but few garden investments provide greater long-term rewards. From site selection and planting to pruning, fertilization, irrigation, and seasonal maintenance, these articles share practical knowledge, observations, successes, failures, and lessons learned while growing fruit in a challenging real-world environment right here on our glamstead…in our orchard…in our berry patches.
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GARDEN : Weed Tea…Yum!!
It smells awful. It looks worse. And my garden seems to love the stuff. Weed tea may not be the most pleasant thing I’ve ever brewed, but turning ordinary weeds into free fertilizer is just…
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GARDEN : Hard Work & Patience
If you’ve been following me for awhile you know I have been battling getting a strawberry patch up and running. For several day lately we’ve enjoyed the “fruits of our labor” so to speak. This…
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GARDEN : What Actually Creates a Productive Garden? (video)
I am going to try something really different…a standard article of mine and also a video from the same article. Why? I really don’t know. I just wanted to try something different. I will post…
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GARDEN : Fertilizer…synthetic vs organic
I’m going to avoid the usual “organic good / synthetic bad” trench warfare. This is a fact…Plants don’t care where nutrients come from. A tomato plant does not know whether Nitrogen came from composted chicken…
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GARDEN : Secondary Nutrients & Micronutrients
In the last article I covered N-P-K as the primary nutrients. < click here to read that article > Now I’ll cover calcium, magnesium, and sulfur as secondary nutrients. And I’ll include iron and micronutrients…
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GARDEN: Fertilizer N-P-K Numbers and What It Means…
Walk into any garden center and you’ll see fertilizer bags with numbers such as 10-10-10, 20-5-10, 5-10-10, etc. To many gardeners, those numbers look like some kind of secret code…they’re not. Those three numbers represent…
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GARDEN : Update! (05/20/2026)
An absolutely gorgeous morning!!! It is crisp and cool this morning, a bit more humidity freshening the air, and just enough cloud cover to make it a little different than most mornings. And best of…
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GARDEN : Strawberry Patch Problems…again!
It just never seems to end with me and my strawberry patch! It is getting old…really, really, old. Over the weekend (last weekend) I went out and really studied my strawberry patch. Remember, it was…
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GARDEN : Soil Amendments…Better & Healthier Soil & Plants!
It’s vitally important to have healthy soil to grow healthy produce…and a lot of it. To that end I will cover; Biochar, Blood Meal, Bone Meal, Coco Coir, Compost, Gypsum, Leaf Mold, Mulch, Peat Moss,…
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GARDEN: Mellon Patch Disaster !
Follow-up article from < GARDEN : Planting butternut squash, cantaloupe, & watermelon… > Note: Originally written on April 28th, updated on May2nd. I’ve been working on a melon patch for a couple months. Why? Last…
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GARDEN : Planting butternut squash, cantaloupe, & watermelon…
Time to get them in the ground and growing ! ! Note: Originally written in mid-April…the actual planting took place at the end of March. It’s early but it looks like no more freezes at…
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GARDEN : Strawberries – Planting Live Plants
This experience couldn’t have been more different than the “bare root” experience. I bought my 20 Eversweet plants from an Etsy vendor…GrowYourOwnFoodShop. I’ve written about them before, they are the folks from whom I purchased…
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GARDEN : Strawberries – Planting Bare Root
First time for everything! I’ve been sharing my love of strawberries for years, and my desire to have a strawberry patch. After years of learning about strawberries and how to grow them in this area,…
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GARDEN : Disaster Strikes !
Some days you just wanna…well, wonder what the heck is going on. Last Saturday morning was one of those days…disaster had struck in the garden the night before. Well, technically in the greenhouse…but it is…
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Sometimes I just get excited…
So there I was Friday night…out to dinner with my wife celebrating 21 years together, wedded bliss. Yeah, hard to believe that someone would put up with me for 21 whole years. I guess she…
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Strawberry Update…Success !
Okay, enough of the current events and political opinion stuff…how about some glamstead garden info? Several years ago I purchased some strawberry plants from a local big box DIY store, they were Sequoia variety. I…
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Update (2/24/2025)
Well, I figured it was time for an update on life here on the glamstead. Might explain the 20-day quiet spell just a bit. And FWIW…there is a ‘summary’ at the end that wraps…