Farm Journal
Monday, March 22, 2021
Yesterday we hosted our second workshop, on grafting fruit trees. Jason Geise taught it, and I think it went really well. I certainly learned a lot. Luckily no one sliced their fingers aside from me …
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Saturday, March 20, 2021
On Friday I got serious about making soil blocks. I decided it wasn’t worth the time to start seeds in 3/4” blocks and transplant them, so I’ve gone straight to the 2” blocks. I think I figured out t…
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Got to work pruning the sprawling pluot at the orchard entrance — this one was tough due to the multitude of crossing branches and the fact that most of the buds and flowers were concentrated near th…
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It was cold and rained slush today — every time I tried to go outside and get to work pruning hail pelted me. So not much got done yesterday. Finished pruning the big overgrown pluot out front — we r…
Continue ReadingWednesday, March 10, 2021
We finally borrowed an orchard ladder from a neighbor this week, so time to get after it on the pruning front. Even having gone through the pruning class recently, looking at our huge gnarly trees wi…
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