We have 8 blueberry bushes in our garden, but we would like to plant some in our new little orchard. Below is a link to an article about propagating blueberries from cuttings. We will be trying this in a couple months. https://homeguides.sfgate.com/start-blueberry-plants-another-grown-plant-57053.html A honey bee pollinating a blueberry blossom in the garden.
We have 3 young pear trees, only two fruited yielding 60 lbs. of pears this year. We canned about a dozen pints, and the remainder made 3 gallons of hard pear cider (perry). The primary fermentation is going full bore. Here is a good article on making pear cider from PracticalSelfReliance.com. Notice the bubbles coming out
We have 3 pear trees that we planted a few years ago, which until now have yielded no fruit. This year we have a decent amount of fruit on two of the three. We harvested 25 lbs of pears off of one tree. The other pear tree full of fruit is a different cultivar that
Last year a friend gave us buckets of grapes and we successfully made 5 gallons of red wine, which we posted about titled Adventures In Winemaking. This year we harvested enough of our own grapes to try a gallon, which we are processing the same way as last year. We harvested about 14 lbs of concord
We bought 12 new trees in March and have them all planted out in a clearing we made leading towards the back of the property. We planted three each of pecan, peach, fig, and plum. morning sun doesn’t quite make it until later. We painted signs for each tree.
A friend of ours gave us buckets full of red grapes. We had wanted to make wine from our own grapes, but we didn’t have a large enough harvest this year. We had already done some reading on the subject and purchased most of the equipment needed. We had never talked to him about winemaking,
This years garden is in full swing and I am harvesting fruits and vegetables everyday. View from the top of the garden looking down. View from the bottom of the garden looking up.
The greenhouse is doing a great job of growing lettuce, arugula and radishes (in the corner that you can’t see). We also have our pepper and tomato seedlings back outside. They’ve been travelling between our house and the greenhouse a few times this spring due to the warm days but freezing nights. Harvesting radishes in
The mushrooms logs are fruiting like crazy this fall. This days harvest was about 3.5 lbs. We eat as many as we can, and dehydrate or freeze the rest. Our pear trees are still too young to give fruit, but our friend George at Green Thumb Nursery has a large pear tree. Sarah and Ben
We have a total of eight fruit trees that we are going to create fruit tree guilds around. The basic idea around a fruit tree guild is using companion plants to perform most of the tasks that I would have to do manually, such as weed control, fertilization, and pest control. You can learn more