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We just got started on my new cider barn. 16X30' post & beam. It will be used to make cider, store tools for the orchards and also be our roadside stand. It actually started last fall when we tore down an old mobile home I rented out to the tenants from hell! There is a full cellar that fit the...

We talked a little bit about fertilizing on another thread and I thought I'd start a separate thread. As I mentioned in the other thread, We definitely don't talk about it enough. Trees use up a lot of nutrients while producing apples and most soils do not provide all or even near what trees...

Normally I'm at about 1/4" green, but I only have a couple trees at silver tip, most everything is still tight. Yesterday morning I woke up to 2" of fresh snow, last weekend we got 9". What a slap in the face. I went up to visit a friend at his orchard yesterday and his trees were the same...

Video I made for advertising this past fall. (No beer was spilled in the making of this film! ;) ) https://www.facebook.com/pg/Outback-Orchard-220533211336544/videos/?ref=page_internal

How many new users has HT taken on since the QDMA forum shutdown started?

I planted these in 2010, purchased from Kelly's Tree Farm in Iowa. They said they would produce in 6-7 years, and they were not kidding!

Time for a mid summer check-in. Post some pics of your apples. HC's....

Not great pics but you can see the size of her. This is in back of my house.

Good resource. http://www.fruit.cornell.edu/orchard-ipm/index.html

Tonight should be a cold one tonight for everyone in the NE. What is your bud stage? Looks like I could get a little thinning. The Weather channel on line is saying 16 tonight for me here and my trees are just barely peaking out with a little green. The chart says 10% loss at 19, and 90% at 10...

I haven't been on here much this week, been getting hounded by the press and I am exhausted! I was blessed to have been put in the right place at the right time. I can't tell you what a rush this was! Now from an apple standpoint, I made the press come to my orchard for pics and interviews...

There was a thread that someone posted about an apple trees showing a leaf burn on the edges on the leaves, but I can't find the thread. Anyways I had an apple seminar yesterday and part of it was a talk on nutrition that was given by a professor from UCONN. She was talking about potassium...

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I know we've talked about our favorite ways to kill caterpillar nests, but the best way to kill them is now. I was thinking about it while pruning this week. As you are pruning keep an eye out for egg clusters and crush them! Any time is a good time when you see them, but you are actively up in...

I just went out to look at a few things around the orchards and some areas I have done some cuttings. We finally have some snow here in the northeast so I did some tracking. In an area where I had cut a couple years ago for a chestnut and oak planting there is all kinds of browse coming up. Ash...

http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2016/01/11/462391470/a-hardier-honeybee-that-fights-back-by-biting-back This is interesting, but I'm not sure I buy this completely. See if you can pick up on why I'm hopeful, but don't completely buy some of the comments here. Put your thinking caps on.