Apple season is officially upon us and, I have to say, I am so incredibly excited about it! Since we’ve processed all 150 pounds of gifted apples, it’s finally time to start harvesting the apples from our own tiny trees! Now, we put in our apple trees just a few…
Whelp…after all the excitement and promise of cherries last week, it looks like I was worried about the wrong pest. This is what has happened over the past few days… Do you see the two almost ripe cherries?Now, do you see the devoured cherry above them? Yep…all our beautiful, ripe…
Well, we finally broke down and purchased ourselves a little lemon tree! We’ve been talking about it for a while and have debated the pros and cons and have decided to go ahead and jump on it. It’s really little right now…more of a bush than a tree…but it has…
The good news is, we have cherries that are ripening up! The bad news is, we have a million aphids on our cherry tree! The good news is, we also have some Ladybugs on our cherry tree! Let’s hope they’re hungrier and faster than the aphids…
Well, it looks like we just might have made it through this last little cold snap OK. Everything that’s in the garden so far seems unharmed by the freezing temps we had the last few nights and for at least the next week our lowest low is supposed to be…
If our fruit trees don’t suffer a hard freeze for the next month and a half, this just might be our first year of real fruit harvests (you know, real as in more than 8 or 10 apples)! Oh, my fingers are crossed and I am so hopeful, but with…
Today was busy, but good busy. Here are just a few things Tool Lady and I got done today… We did some training of our espalier trees (which means we tied their branches to the fence) and in the process accidently harvested a few (not quite ready) apples that Fish…
Welcome back for Part Two! OK…Once we took out the Junipers, there was no looking back! We quickly decided to put up a fence (a 6 foot tall fence, none-the-less) to truly establish our space (you might remember in my last post that our yard was used as a walk-through…