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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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  • How to make dirt…Part #4

    This is the fourth in the making dirt series. If you haven’t already read Parts #1, #2 & #3 you might want to: <click here to read Part #1> <click here to read Part #2>…

  • How to make dirt…Part #3

    This is the third in the making dirt series. If you haven’t already read Parts #1 & #2 you might want to: <click here to read Part #1> <click here to read Part #2> We…

  • How to make dirt…Part #2

    This is the second in the making dirt series. If you haven’t already read Part #1 you might want to <click here to read Part #1> We are moving on from raised bed soil to…

  • How to make dirt…Part #1

    Administrative note: I broke this super, super long article into 5 shorter ones. I didn’t want to bore folks to death or overload Internet servers from folks reading it. The “parts” will be: Introduction &…

  • GARDEN: Strawberry Patch 2024 Fall Work (video)

    Here we go!!!!  Yup, trying my hand at another video. This one is a ‘glamstead’ and ‘garden’ subject. I hop you enjoy it…or at least get some good information from it 🙂      …

  • Garden: Losses and Lessons Learned

    OK, so here is the after action report on the big freeze-out that occurred on May 8th that I wrote about on May 9th (Garden: Big Mistake). Here is the first thing that I found…

  • Garden: Big Mistake!

    I’ve been really working hard at expanding our garden this year. Our goal is to try and eat out of the garden as much as possible. A secondary goal was to become independent of buying…

  • Garden: Q & A – Tomato Soil

    From: floidb RE: Garden Tip: Potting Soil Greetings and thanks for the helpful article. Do you think this mixture would work well for planting the tomatoes in a raised container, once they are large enough to…

  • Garden: Starting Tomatoes Indoors

    Let’s talk why to start seedlings indoors. In my area you have a 50% chance of frost (36oF) by June 3rd. Two weeks later there is only a 10% chance of frost. Sure you can…

  • Time to work on my strawberry patch! (ooooppppssss)

    (no, that’s not my strawberry patch) Early last week I inspected my strawberry beds to see how close I was to un-mulching them for the spring. You can tell they are ready when you see…

  • Garden: New Set-up

    Before I get into the details of our garden set-up it is important to know what we are trying to accomplish. As you well-know, everything we build, buy, or develop has a specific mission. We…

  • Lessons Learned – Garden 2023

    I put together some nice raised bed planter boxes…good call on my part. But, what really made the difference was the super high quality soil I made up for those boxes. Plenty of compost, mostly…

  • Plan B, Plan C, and Strawberries…

    So let’s do this in reverse order…strawberries first. But stick around for the Plan B & Plan C part…or jump directly to it. You know there is always method to my madness 🙂 Strawberries –…

  • Time to be thinking spring…garden, orchard, & berry patch!

    Yup, yesterday morning got me thinking about spring…garden, orchard, berry patch…YEA! I’ve been putting it off because of weather, mud mostly, but yesterday was one of my most favorite times of spring (ok, late winter)…pruning…

  • Garden: Winterized Strawberries

    My strawberry venture has been an interesting one this year to be sure. First, I started out and killed the initial 8 strawberry plants…$32 down the drain! But I learned not to trust others when…

  • Garden: Orchard Fall Maintenance

    January 2021 I started our fruit orchard…with 3 trees. So no, the picture to the left is not our orchard, just a nice picture to make you feel good and impress you. We started our…

  • GARDEN: Strawberry Patch 2022 Fall Update

    OK, this is a new kind of post for me. Yes, it is about our strawberry patch, that stays the same. What is different is how I produce it. Recently, about 2 weeks ago, I…

  • GARDEN: Our Strawberry Patch – Fall

    In addition to Pepsi I am a addicted to strawberries…yup, I love em! You will always find an open can of freeze dried strawberries in the cabinet for use on my Special K. This past…

  • Garden: Hail and Starvation

    About two weeks ago we had a really bad hail storm hit us. Two miles away…nothing. Here…really bad. So to make it simple to understand…we lost our entire garden…everything! The hail was the size of…

  • Top 3 Apocalypse Vegetables

    This article came from a question asked of me: What would the top 3 vegetables be in your garden during the apocalypse? Valid question…although the first time I have been asked that. And it is…

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