Maintaining a Healthy Young Tree

Thursday, August 12th, 2010

Making sure that your fruit tree stays healthy is very important, but not as hard as some might think. There are several vital things you need to do: don′t harvest all of the fruit on the tree at the same time make sure the soil is healthy watch out for pests; plant it correctly be [...]

What to Look for when Buying a Tree

Monday, August 9th, 2010

Although the process of growing and caring for a tree is generally challenging and even difficult at times, sometimes one of the hardest parts is choosing which kind you want. You have to choose between the many sizes, fruit, and other attributes. The different sizes include: dwarf, semi-dwarf, and standard. Your choice can affect everything [...]

How to Safely Spray Pesticide

Monday, August 9th, 2010

If you want to protect your fruit tree from pests during the summer, this is almost impossible to accomplish without the use of pesticides or chemicals. This might scare some people into thinking that the actual fruits will contain traces of the chemicals. If you do things correctly, you can get rid of all the [...]

Planting and Caring for a New Tree

Monday, August 9th, 2010

When you have decided on which kind of fruit tree you would like, and where you would like it, you can finally start to plant it. If you buy your tree from a nursery, be especially careful when you are taking it from the nursery to your house. I once had a friend who put [...]

Productive Fruit Trees through a Biodynamic Farming Strategy

Monday, December 21st, 2009

As kids, you surely can remember fond and fun memories when you chased after worms and killed them. You can have memories of fright, disgust and simply anger of the tiny helpless creatures, which, as you were told by elders, could enter your body and cause so much troubles and illnesses. In reality, earthworms do [...]