Espaliers and Backyard Fruit Production

Every year in mid-summer I look up into our beautiful ginkgo tree and ponder the day that those green fruits turn a bright orange and begin ...

Remember my post about using footies and kaolin clay to prevent insect damage?   Well, it's late August and for the first time since I p...

For many years I've been frustrated by the near complete loss of my apple crop to plum curculios, codling moths and apple maggot.  If yo...

Check out this great article about building a trellis out of electrical conduit.  If you replaced the string net with wire, this would be a ...

Another great benefit of espaliers is the ease of protecting them from late frosts.  Frost is threatening my home town tonight.  I found som...

Pruning black currants is a fairly easy task. Since black currants bear the most fruit on last year's wood, the only real trick is to r...

Peach leaf curl is a serious problem and can defoliate a tree Photo credit goes to the University of Illinois Extension There is no c...