my master plan of using pruned branches from the fruit trees to create woven borders around the tree bases to protect from being near the lawnmower is working even better than I anticipated! I have been plotting this project for ages and am so thrilled
So anyway, what do I do with our first peach harvest? They’re quite small as it’s our beginner year and didn’t know how best to grow / look after them, but they’re sweet and soft with white flesh. Too many to eat as-is as I’m the only one who really eats them. Should I bottle them or make jam maybe?
There are still dozens more on the trees. 😬🍑 #HomeGrown#GardenFood#FruitTrees
I have a quick question for any #Gardeners in upstate #NewYork. Are there any examples of Fuyu persimmons growing in the area of #Albany New York? Or in the #HudsonRiver Valley?
I perhaps should elaborate a bit about this Fuyu persimmon query. I read that this variety grows OK in USDA Plant Hardiness Zone(s) 7 to 10.
The latest zones map for #NewYorkState shows that the area around Albany is the most northern extent of zone 6, running up the #HudsonRiver Valley from down-state. So I wondered if by some miracle, someone in the area is managing to grow one in a microclimate.
Well I wasted all summer, and didn't get my #VW#Squareback running so I have to drag it up into my garage to keep the rain from getting in it this winter.
Trouble is there's nothing to hook a comealong to in my garage. So I bought a D-ring from HarborFreight and rented a hammer drill and masonry bits from the tool lending library tonight.
Hopefully the anchor bolts will hold and I can get it winched up my driveway.
There's a refrigerator there for the #portlandFruitTreeProject too! You can donate your excess fruit or their volunteers will come and pick it for you! They make sure it gets to people who can use it.
Some concepts in this article are new to me, like planting four trees in one hole and Summer pruning. They contradict other things I've learned.
But when considered in the context of backyard gardens, they make sense. Keeping tree size small and having a manageable crop size throughout the year are goals for a small home garden, but not a commercial one.
Finally, in pouring rain, the space around the little cherry tree & the plum by the hammock was cleared from grass and got manure, cardboard and mulched branches in that order and were watered generously. I can easily prune these myself, small as they are…
And that was it, time was quarter to 3 and I spent rest of the day finishing my hallway bench. Had to get my winter jacket and take breaks inside to get warm. #sarassummer23 @gardening#mulching#fruittrees
Blossom is just starting to come out on some of the trees. These are from our almond tree (has actually flowered a little this year - probably because the Winter was so wet!)
A big part of my job is running our fruit tree project. We come.pick your trees, you keep 25% if you want it, volunteers who come help split 25%, and we donate the rest to food security partners in town like the food bank. It is absolutely a bonkers year for fruit. Picked over 600 lbs from a single tree last week. Lucky / happy to be working here! #foodsecurity#fruittrees#gardening
We've harvested from all of our apple, yellow plum & Asian pear trees 3 times already. More fruits are ripening for more harvests. Our peach tree has been harvested 3 times already. We have about 3-4 harvests for that tree.
Three years ago, my partner gave me two sticks which she assured me were dwarf fruit trees. I dutifully planted them, and now indeed have a cherry and a plum tree thriving in containers on an upper-storey balcony. And this year, the plum has fruited! Birds or squirrels took most of the plums quickly, but I still have four which have made it this far and are starting to ripen. It’s great to grow crops up in the air. #Gardening#BalconyGardening#FruitTrees#Plums#UrbanGardening
My little persimmon tree is working on it's first fruit - a single growing persimmon. I'm so excited by this development, especially given how bad my luck has been with the fruit trees this year. Grow little persimmon, grow!
Massive bunch of palm tree fruit hanging in the dead centre of the cemetery of Thursday Island downunder in far north Australia - nobody around to pick the fruit? Taken a couple of weeks ago🥱😷😜 #photography#nature#travel#tree#fruittrees#fruit#humor
Garden Box is done!! The back board was warped from sitting outside for 2 years so thats why the end is off the ground, but it's nothing some cement blocks can't weigh down until it figures itself out. Now, to get a bunch of soil... #gardening#today#garden#fruittrees#edibles#home#DIY
I could have sent a proposal/estimate to a client this Friday morning, but I thought "Meh, who reads those on a Friday afternoon?" and instead I spent over an hour picking juneberries in the HQ's #garden before the #fruittrees dry out 😅