Tricia’s video gives you the scoop on spraying peach trees and shows you the spraying process. Different kinds of trees have different spraying needs, so here’s a gathering of resources for you. HOW & WHEN TO SPRAY FRUIT TREES A calendar from UC Davis has advice on when to spray and prune year-round in your home orchard. Winter pest issues (with both organic and non-organic treatments) are spelled out thoroughly in another UC Davis publication on backyard fruit trees. Our local Master…
Do you have a small garden? Make it do double-duty as a space for outdoor entertaining and growing edibles. Garden designer Susan Morrison is an expert on small space landscapes and she gave us quick design…
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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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Once you have a strawberry bed going, you need to renovate and renew it every year, to maintain healthy yields. Strawberries are vigorous plants. As they increase you want to keep the beds from becoming…
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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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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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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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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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How can we send you trees in a box? Because the fruit and nut trees are dormant right now. As long as the bare root trees are kept cool (38F to 45F) and the roots stay moist, the trees can be shipped in…
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December 28, 2011 - Charlotte from Peaceful Valley
Sharpening your pruning tools makes yard work easier for you and keeps your trees, shrubs and plants healthy. SHARP TOOLS HELP YOU How many times have you attempted a pruning cut and grumbled when your…
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