How to Get More Fruit From Your Home Orchard Trees Talk about firm fruit! Actually these are homemade branch weights I add to encourage fruiting. Sometimes my young fruit trees get out of line, that is they send vertical shoots to the high heavens and leave me standing out of arm’s reach and picking distance, [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Cherries'
Stone Fruit: Rock Your Orchard’s World
August 6th, 2011 · 22 Comments
Tags: Cherries · Garden Tip · How-To
Over the Pass to Apple Country
November 17th, 2010 · 13 Comments
View from the Lancaster’s apple and cherry orchard on the Columbia River. Last weekend, my friends Nancy and Scarlett invited me to a cider pressing east of the mountains, the mountains being the Cascades. I eagerly accepted. I’ve lived in and traveled to many places, but Washington state holds my heart. A land of stark [...]
Tags: Apples · Cherries · Seasons | Autumn
Growing Cherries the Size of Apricots (or Not)
July 8th, 2009 · 16 Comments
I was feeling pretty smug about the several handfuls of fresh sweet cherries I had just plucked from my young orchard, when a friend dropped by to share the bounty of her trip to Eastern Washington–a veritable fruit basket of a region blessed by serious sun and abundant irrigation sources. Her gift, Rainier cherries the size of [...]
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