Nursery, Hatchery, Homestead, Preppers
Nursery, Hatchery, Homestead, Preppers
We are planting blueberry trees, mushrooms, and trees this month. We are also setting up our irrigation system that will run across the property with water pumps, timers, and drip hoses. For many of the plants on our farm watering the roots is more important than the leaves. Deep watering is a strategy that we …
These are the last list of varieties or walnuts for the final day of walnut week. We have purchased a Franquette and a Heartnut for our installation on this permaculture design. We are not planting until we have finished the basic stages of our soil remediation. We added horse manure yesterday. Today we are installing …
These are some of the birds on the farm today! They are ready to be sold. Our assortment is egg layers coming up, meat birds ready to go either already butchered and packaged or as a laying couple or individual. We have three types of turkey to make your organic thanksgiving or holiday meal. We …
We are designing a long rectangular lot and have our Juglone producing plants at the top. That allows us to use the rest of the incline to work with different target zones to achieve the results we desire. It is important to have your areas mapped our to some degree so you know what kind …
It is also referred to as a Japanese Walnut. It is a medium sized tree and bears large numbers of heart shaped nuts. These are easily cracked in half and They are edible raw or cooked as is their oil. They gwor best in well-drained, fertile, moist loam to sandy loam soil with good aeration …
Canopy Tree of the Week The Heartnut from the Walnut Family Read More »
Walnuts are cultivated mostly in China, Iran, US, Turkey and Mexico. Black and English walnuts can grow throughout the United States and Southern Canada. In a few words, the most important enemy of English and black walnut trees is night frost during late spring or early fall. Areas with frequent night frosts during the spring …
In general, walnut trees need less pruning than other fruit trees (apple, citrus etc.) However, the same rules of fruit trees pruning apply. In a few words, we prune (or “train”) young trees during their first or second year in order to determine their shape (crown skeleton). The shape is very important and can affect …
