What did you do in your orchard today?

[CrealCritter]

Persimmon jam

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[Mini Horses]

Great use of your "forgotten treasure"

 

[CrealCritter]

Found the honey bees that are pollinating my orchard. I have a fond affection for them.

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[farmerjan]

Must be a great neighbor to be pollinating your garden/orchard/ flowers for "free"... any chance of getting some "local" ... literally .... honey too????

 

[CrealCritter]

Must be a great neighbor to be pollinating your garden/orchard/ flowers for "free"... any chance of getting some "local" ... literally .... honey too????

Absolutely we get local honey

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[The_Whippoorwhil]

Hello!! Does anyone here have grapes?? Me and my mother make a lot of grape jam but our plants haven't been doing the best. Anyway we are trying to judge when to prune them. Has anybody done theirs yet??

 

[CrealCritter]

Hello!! Does anyone here have grapes?? Me and my mother make a lot of grape jam but our plants haven't been doing the best. Anyway we are trying to judge when to prune them. Has anybody done theirs yet??

I started a grapevine this spring, the plan is to train to a 4 cane single trunk kniffin.

I'll do my first pruning probably in February but definitely before buds swell in March. It'll probably around the same time I collect scionwood from the orchard.

There are lots to training methods for grapes, it kind of depends on the variety and what you are training them to climb. @LaurenRitz could offer better advise that I could.

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