http://www.tallcloverfarm.com Homeward bound on Puget Sound. Putting in a good day on Vashon Island time. Mon, 06 Feb 2012 18:31:55 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 http://www.tallcloverfarm.com/4456/stone-fruit-rock-your-orchard-trees-world http://www.tallcloverfarm.com/4456/stone-fruit-rock-your-orchard-trees-world#comments Sat, 06 Aug 2011 17:33:03 +0000 Tom http://www.tallcloverfarm.com/?p=4456 #leftcontainerBox { float:left; position: fixed; top: 60%; left: 70px; } #leftcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; clear:both; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; padding-bottom:2px; } #bottomcontainerBox { height: 30px; width:50%; padding-top:1px; } #bottomcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; height: 30px; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; } 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, [...]

]]> http://www.tallcloverfarm.com/4456/stone-fruit-rock-your-orchard-trees-world/feed 22 http://www.tallcloverfarm.com/2799/over-the-pass-to-apple-country http://www.tallcloverfarm.com/2799/over-the-pass-to-apple-country#comments Wed, 17 Nov 2010 20:02:06 +0000 Tom http://www.tallcloverfarm.com/?p=2799 #leftcontainerBox { float:left; position: fixed; top: 60%; left: 70px; } #leftcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; clear:both; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; padding-bottom:2px; } #bottomcontainerBox { height: 30px; width:50%; padding-top:1px; } #bottomcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; height: 30px; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; } 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 [...]

]]> http://www.tallcloverfarm.com/2799/over-the-pass-to-apple-country/feed 13 http://www.tallcloverfarm.com/320/growing-cherries-the-size-of-apricots-or-not http://www.tallcloverfarm.com/320/growing-cherries-the-size-of-apricots-or-not#comments Wed, 08 Jul 2009 04:29:53 +0000 Tom http://www.tallcloverfarm.com/?p=320 #leftcontainerBox { float:left; position: fixed; top: 60%; left: 70px; } #leftcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; clear:both; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; padding-bottom:2px; } #bottomcontainerBox { height: 30px; width:50%; padding-top:1px; } #bottomcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; height: 30px; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; } 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 [...]

]]> http://www.tallcloverfarm.com/320/growing-cherries-the-size-of-apricots-or-not/feed 16 http://www.tallcloverfarm.com/82/the-grow-report-cherry-trees http://www.tallcloverfarm.com/82/the-grow-report-cherry-trees#comments Wed, 16 Jul 2008 21:08:31 +0000 Tom http://www.tallcloverfarm.com/?p=82 #leftcontainerBox { float:left; position: fixed; top: 60%; left: 70px; } #leftcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; clear:both; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; padding-bottom:2px; } #bottomcontainerBox { height: 30px; width:50%; padding-top:1px; } #bottomcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; height: 30px; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; } Stella Cherries poised for the picking. Here’s an update on how my young orchard grows. Stella: Sweet Cherry, 4 years old, first harvest 2008, 3 pounds, healthy, no insect or disease issues Lapin: Sweet Cherry, 4 years old, first harvest 2007, 1  pound, moderate grower, no insect or disease issues Early Burlat: Sweet Cherry, 4 years old, no harvest, [...]

]]> http://www.tallcloverfarm.com/82/the-grow-report-cherry-trees/feed 3 http://www.tallcloverfarm.com/80/life-is-just-a-bowl-of-cherries http://www.tallcloverfarm.com/80/life-is-just-a-bowl-of-cherries#comments Wed, 16 Jul 2008 16:39:27 +0000 Tom http://www.tallcloverfarm.com/?p=80 #leftcontainerBox { float:left; position: fixed; top: 60%; left: 70px; } #leftcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; clear:both; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; padding-bottom:2px; } #bottomcontainerBox { height: 30px; width:50%; padding-top:1px; } #bottomcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; height: 30px; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; } Stella Cherries: the before picture; the after, no so pretty.   Metaphors come in all shapes and sizes (as do cliches), and this morning one of my favorites came to mind and to rest at my breakfast table. Life is just a bowl of cherries indeed. And with such a glowing cache of fresh-picked gems before me, the world seems pretty fine. Mr. [...]

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