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We just got started on my new cider barn. 16X30' post & beam. It will be used to make cider, store tools for the orchards and also be our roadside stand.
It actually started last fall when we tore down an old mobile home I rented out to the tenants from hell! There is a full cellar that fit the...
We talked a little bit about fertilizing on another thread and I thought I'd start a separate thread. As I mentioned in the other thread, We definitely don't talk about it enough. Trees use up a lot of nutrients while producing apples and most soils do not provide all or even near what trees...
Normally I'm at about 1/4" green, but I only have a couple trees at silver tip, most everything is still tight. Yesterday morning I woke up to 2" of fresh snow, last weekend we got 9". What a slap in the face. I went up to visit a friend at his orchard yesterday and his trees were the same...
Video I made for advertising this past fall. (No beer was spilled in the making of this film! ;) )
https://www.facebook.com/pg/Outback-Orchard-220533211336544/videos/?ref=page_internal
Tonight should be a cold one tonight for everyone in the NE. What is your bud stage? Looks like I could get a little thinning. The Weather channel on line is saying 16 tonight for me here and my trees are just barely peaking out with a little green. The chart says 10% loss at 19, and 90% at 10...
I haven't been on here much this week, been getting hounded by the press and I am exhausted! I was blessed to have been put in the right place at the right time. I can't tell you what a rush this was!
Now from an apple standpoint, I made the press come to my orchard for pics and interviews...
There was a thread that someone posted about an apple trees showing a leaf burn on the edges on the leaves, but I can't find the thread. Anyways I had an apple seminar yesterday and part of it was a talk on nutrition that was given by a professor from UCONN. She was talking about potassium...
I know we've talked about our favorite ways to kill caterpillar nests, but the best way to kill them is now. I was thinking about it while pruning this week. As you are pruning keep an eye out for egg clusters and crush them! Any time is a good time when you see them, but you are actively up in...
I just went out to look at a few things around the orchards and some areas I have done some cuttings. We finally have some snow here in the northeast so I did some tracking. In an area where I had cut a couple years ago for a chestnut and oak planting there is all kinds of browse coming up. Ash...
http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2016/01/11/462391470/a-hardier-honeybee-that-fights-back-by-biting-back
This is interesting, but I'm not sure I buy this completely. See if you can pick up on why I'm hopeful, but don't completely buy some of the comments here. Put your thinking caps on.