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March 28, 2013 - Charlotte from Peaceful Valley
Make your organic orchard bountiful by fertilizing your fruit trees. In our latest, research-based video, Tricia explains IF, when, and how much to fertilize your fruit trees. Keep reading here to learn…
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July 11, 2012 - Charlotte from Peaceful Valley
Prune cherry, apricot, and pluot trees in the summer, not the winter. These trees are susceptible to water-borne diseases and winter pruning cuts provide dangerous openings for damage in rainy weather.…
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June 12, 2012 - Charlotte from Peaceful Valley
What do gardeners in the West need? A shovel, a hose, and the Sunset Western Garden Book. The latest edition of the Western gardener’s best friend is stuffed with color photos of plants. Find out…
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February 21, 2012 - Charlotte from Peaceful Valley
Bring your garden to life by growing grapes! Whether you choose table grapes or wine grapes, beautify your garden with picturesque grape vines, and enjoy a luscious crop. BEST SOIL FOR GRAPES A traditional…
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February 17, 2012 - Charlotte from Peaceful Valley
Add currant bushes to your garden for an easy, deer-resistant edible that also grows in part-shade. If you live in USDA zones 3-8 currants are a must for your garden. In our new video, Tricia plants currants…
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February 8, 2012 - Charlotte from Peaceful Valley
Once you have a strawberry bed going, you need to renovate and renew it every year, to maintain healthy yields. June-bearer and Everbearer beds should be renewed. Day Neutral strawberries should simply…
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February 6, 2012 - Charlotte from Peaceful Valley
The best way to an organic gardener’s heart is… There are oh, so many words that could finish that sentence. Give us your suggestions in the comments! This Valentine’s Day we recommend…
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January 27, 2012 - Charlotte from Peaceful Valley
Walk through the process of pruning a bare root fruit tree in Tricia’s video, where she prunes her new peach tree. Are you ready to plant and prune some bare root trees? The video has all the basic…
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January 12, 2012 - Charlotte from Peaceful Valley
Things change. Advice for planting bare root trees has changed too. Colorado State University studied root growth in fruit trees. They have a planting technique that expands root growth by 400%. Curious?…
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January 11, 2012 - Charlotte from Peaceful Valley
WHAT’S A CHILL HOUR? You’re happily choosing your blueberries from our catalog when you suddenly notice extra numbers in the descriptions. Number of chill hours? Isn’t it enough to know…
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