Orchard review
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Orchard in May
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This could be a good orchard year. Despite the cold March and the beginning of April, the rest was unusually warm. There wasn’t a single day with frost temperatures, and the orchard has used this fact in the best possible way. All of the trees and bushes have formed small fruits, and for the first…
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Orchard is waking up
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There’s always that one tree that never gives fruits. In my garden that’s a plum. A very early yellow plum usually flowers first and because of this flowers usually freeze. The same thing is happening this year, the crazy old plum started blossoming this week, just a couple of days after the warmer weather…
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Orchard pruning part 2
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We finally did it. The orchard has been pruned. We managed to find one warm enough day without the wind and finish with the apple pruning. This time my hubby helped me trim the higher branches, so we managed to prune all the trees in a couple of hours. The temperatures have been very…
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Orchard pruning part 1
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Usually, the first thing done in the new gardening year is orchard pruning, but as this year has been a weird one, the orchard pruning is falling behind and it still hasn’t been done. Our orchard is an old one, in desperate need of some young trees, which we will eventually plant, but until…
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Orchard surprise- first harvest
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After a long rain period, on Friday, I finally got some dry weather to visit my garden. I thought I’d do some weeding because the garden is covered in weeds, but, instead, I ended up having my first big harvest. Orchard, although it has been hit by two big frost waves in April it still…