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Pruning an Old, Neglected Apple Tree

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Pruning an Old, Neglected Apple Tree

by Steph Muma on Mar 08 2025
If you’re ready to rejuvenate your old fruit trees, or you’ve inherited a space that has an old tree (or forgot to prune your trees for the past decade - it happens!), you just need to spend some time learning about pruning and you're in the right place!
How to Spring Prune Your Fruit Trees

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How to Spring Prune Your Fruit Trees

by Steph Muma on Feb 06 2025
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If you read our first pruning blog post in this series, you’ll already know how important spring pruning is for your fruit trees of any age, but in particular for your fruit trees’ first 3-5 years of life! Today we’re going to go into lots of detail about how to do dormant spring pruning, tree anatomy, and the terms you’ll hear orchardists saying, so buckle up!
Planning Your Most Important Spring Orchard Task

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Planning Your Most Important Spring Orchard Task

by Zack Muma on Jan 27 2025
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It’s also one of the most common mistakes new fruit tree growers make!  Many of our customers question why we tell them to prune away approximately 1/3 of their young 1 or 2 year old tree as part of the planting process after their purchase, so we thought we’d begin our pruning blog series with an outline of why  you should care so much about pruning, and what you should begin planning for.
winter wassail making collage

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Winter Wassail

by Zack Muma on Jan 09 2025
Originally, Wassail was tied to the tradition of wassailing, an old Yuletide tradition of drinking and salutation along with door-to-door charity-giving or used to ensure a good harvest the following year. Wassails are typically made with hot mulled ciders, ales, wines and spices, adding apples, oranges or other fruit as well.