Orchard
Raised Beds
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This is
one of the flower beds that came with the house. Click on a flower for a close-up view.
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The garden
and orchard are sited on a slope, facing south-east. The garden
plot is 11 x 100 ft, divided into raised beds. If it rains
very little does not get captured. The fruit trees are on a 20 x 20 grid at the top of the
slope. Hopefully any frost will slide down away from them and there will be good
enough drainage to avoid 'wet feet'. The peach trees especially want good drainage. We
tried to bring Asparagus and Rhubarb from Ohio but I'm afraid they didn't survive. The
grafted apple trees, now 10 years old, did somewhat better. They're in a row, too close
together, but we would like to form a Belgian Fence or similar espaliered form. |
January 2006:
February:
March:
 | 3rd
Pruning trees, Bordaux mix on grapes and brambles. Planted 1 row of potatoes
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| 5th
More pruning, dorment oil on everything plus Ferbam on peaches
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| 8th
Pruning workshop, dorment spray on cherries,peaches and plums(Captan and Malethion). set
out cabbages
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| 11th
pre-pink spray
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| 13th
peach,plum,necterine and pear in bloom
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| 17th
bloom spray (fungicide only)
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| 21st
1/4 in green spray (apples)
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| 27th
set out onions, cabbages settling in except red
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| 28th
planted peas, all 3 clumps of rubarb up, lilacs leafing out
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| 30th
planted Wando peas, uncovered a row of strawberries, some have buds, brambles leafing out
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April:
| 2nd
spray peaches and cherries with Captan, spray apples and pear with ferbam,malethion and
streptomycin.
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| 3rd
set out more lettuce
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| 4th
Gravenstien apple in bloom
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| 8th
Apples and cherries in bloom, peach petal drop, peas up, moving strawberries from old bed.
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| 15th
Tree peony starting to open, locust leafing out
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| 18th
sprayed ferbam and streptomycin on apples and pears, sprayed captan and imidan on grapes
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| 24th
sprayed captan and malethion on everything
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| 29th
beets up
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May:
| 1st
sprayed
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| 2nd
ate first strawberry, planted bush bean Rocdor
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| 10th
set out 6 tomato plants: big boy, better boy, brandywine, strawberry?
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| 15th
beans up,planted yellow beans and rest of lettuce, cabbage starting to head
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| 17th
set out leeks, been eating lettuce and spinach, getting about a pint of berries every
night
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| 20th
sprayed everything, set out more big boy and rest of lettuce, thinning peaches and
necterine
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| 23rd
picked early snow peas(dwarf white sugar), blackberry blooming, planted corn
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| 28th
picked 2 quarts of pie cherries, planted Marketmore76 and Tendergreen cucumbers
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| 29th
yellow beans up, picked more cherries. Got 8 qts total.
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June:
| 4th
picked some peaches, tomatoes starting to form, dwarf white pea done, Wando about ready
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| 15th
green (?)beans starting to bloom, cucumbers up, got about 2 bu. of peaches total
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| 22nd
sprayed pyrethron(sic) for Japanese Beetles, very dry
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| 28th
wax(yellow)beans blooming, heavy rain
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July:
| 3rd
first string beans ready, planted lima beans
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| 7th
cucumbers starting to bloom, sprayed Sevin
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| 10th
picked from 2nd planting of beans, lima's starting to germinate
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| 12th
had first tomatos(2), picked blackberries
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| 14th
cucumbers forming, blooms on peppers
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| 15th
sprayed Sevin
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| 26th
picking cucumbers, dug onions
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| 27th
had apple salad(mostly Gravenstein)
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:August:
| 4th
White grapes getting ripe
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| 8th
picked white grapes, seedless,very sweet but still very grapey,
Gravenstein apple sauce ok
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| 15th
got one Arkansas Black apple from the critters, a very good apple!
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