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noticed your apple tree suddenly dropping small fruit in early summer, don’t panic. It’s not a sign something’s gone wrong. In fact, it’s perfectly normal, and it’s a good thing. This natural process is known as June drop, and it’s the tree’s way of managing its resources.
Summer pruning focuses on enhancing fruit production by encouraging your tree to concentrate its energy on developing fruit buds close to the stem. This method contrasts with winter pruning, which is more about shaping and structuring the tree.
Have you ever found yourself completely confused about how to prune your tomato plants? Well, you’re not alone! When I first started gardening, terms like “truss” and “sucker” left me scratching my head. I was terrified I’d prune the wrong part of the plant and end up with no tomatoes. […]
It’s time to inject some life back into those garden tools, the easy way! First things first, you absolutely don’t need to sharpen, clean or oil your garden tools. However, if you do, they will last longer, work better and you will save money because you won’t need to replace […]
We’ve spent a couple of weeks building a new planter for the garden, it’s multi-leveled and modular. In other words, three separate parts make up the planter allowing us to change the shape to suit. But for now, it’s a corner as we designed it and built it specifically for […]
At least once a week I’m asked how I organize my seeds, and until now I didn’t think I was doing anything fancy, but I’ve realized that actually I have a pretty nifty system for storing seeds and organizing them to make it easy to find what I need and […]
It’s been mad hot this last few weeks and the idea of being in a hot kitchen cooking or even sitting eating hot food might not be so appealing, but then again not everyone gets excited at the idea of salad for lunch so we thought we’d share one of […]
This week we shared a quick video on Instagram of something we call garden salad pasta. It’s basically a really quick dinner involving homegrown food like tomatoes, basil and garlic. It’s so easy that you don’t even need to measure anything and the only thing you cook is the pasta.It […]
