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Perennial vegetables are a great way to supplement your annual vegetable production with very little effort. You plant them once, then get a harvest year after year with very little [...]
Here is a quick overview of the basic pruning requirements for the most common cool climate fruit trees. You can read my other posts on Pruning Fruiting Trees and Pruning: [...]
For successful pruning to occur it is important to use the right equipment. Using the right equipment for the pruning task you have will mean that the task will be [...]
Pruning is the process of removing parts of a plant for health reasons or to encourage certain types of growth. Not all food bearing plants require pruning, whereas some species [...]
Photo sourced from nurseriesonline If you would like to try growing your own fruit such as peaches, apples, blackberries and raspberries now this is the time to get into [...]
My vegetable garden enclosure It has been nearly 12 months since I installed a steel and mesh enclosure over my vegetable garden. My initial reaction was “wow how easy is [...]
Home grown organic blueberries are just delightful. Compact and super easy to grow, blueberries are a must for anyone interested in growing their own food. Blueberries are a long-lived [...]
Are you thinking of putting in a permanent walk in enclosure for your vegetable garden and fruit orchard? In my opinion it is well worth the investment. When I first [...]
One of the most important things that backyard producers need to learn is how to have a continuous production of food. The feast or famine production of many backyards can [...]
We have a real problem with bower birds attacking the vegetable garden and parrots and cockatoos eating our fruit. So, I have had to come up with ways to prevent [...]
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