Category: Fruit Trees

Fruit tree pruning in the high desert

by Christine | Jan 20, 2022 | Food we grow, Fruit Trees | 0

When to prune fruit trees in the high desert? Light pruning in summer is ok.

Apricots and tomatoes

by Christine | Jun 21, 2021 | Fruit Trees | 0

We overwintered several of the Peacevine tomatoes growing in hydro tubs in the winter greenhouse. SUCCESS! They made it without any supplemental heating, being 6 ft in the ground (walapini) kept the winter greenhouse from...

Another fruit tree & berry order coming up!

by Christine | Oct 1, 2016 | Fruit Trees | 0

Please look at my post from spring for details. I will probably submit my order late next week and I will update here in another post with more details.

How to plant fruit trees

by Christine | Feb 12, 2016 | Food we grow, Fruit Trees | 0

In our new orchard we followed the traditional advice to dig DEEP and LARGE holes. Just as we spent MEGA BUCKS (about $100/hole) getting these holes dug and buying Kellogg Amend by the pallet (for a 50/50 mix), I find that the...

WHERE to plant the fruit trees?

by Christine | Feb 10, 2016 | Food we grow, Fruit Trees | 3

I posted our 25 fruit and nut trees along with their descriptions and they are scheduled to arrive next week. In my experience, most problems are caused by either WEATHER or CRITTERS. We hope to eventually cover the entire...

Updated list of trees still available to add to our fruit tree order

by Christine | Feb 3, 2016 | Food we grow, Fruit Trees | 2

I just went through my spreadsheet with the listing of trees I considered ordering a week ago and updated availability. They’re going fast! I did not add any trees to my list with: Rootstock I didn’t care for such as...

Our Bay Laurel Nursery bareroot fruit and nut tree order

by Christine | Feb 2, 2016 | Food we grow, Fruit Trees | 0

I meant to post sooner, but due to ordering problems (described below), a snowstorm, a day without internet service and our co-op pickup, I got seriously delayed. So here are the 25 fruit and nut trees we ordered and hopefully...