Orchard Supplies
Orchard Supplies
Enjoy a wide range of items to help you on your plant growing journey! We offer everything from orchard supplies such as spiral guards and bamboo stakes to various natural fertilizers and inputs to books on a variety of subjects.
To save you shipping costs, orchard supplies will be shipped with any nursery stock that you order when the nursery stock is ready in the spring. If you want your orchard supplies sent to you immediately, please create two separate orders: one for nursery stock and one for orchard supplies.
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Unsulphured blackstrap molasses are a great way of getting some much-needed nutrients to your trees in a more natural way, generally being considered high in iron, calcium, and magnesium. It is also a key ingredient in our Holistic Spray if you are using effective microbes.
Please note the molasses we carry is not food grade.
Contents: Organic, unsulphured, pasteurized, non-GMO blackstrap molasses
Size: 945mL bottle
Application:
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Root Drench - 1tsp per 1L of water during vegetative state every 7-14 days
- Root Drench During Bloom - 2tsp per 1L of water every 7-14 days
- Foliar - 1/4tsp of water per 1L of water every 14 days
Soil: Any
We use this in our orchard for all trees (both in our experimental orchard and nursery stock) as part of our holistic spray system. You can download the holistic spray recipe here.
Cold-pressed, live and nutrient-rich, this liquid fish hydrolysate is not sterilized with high heat like an emulsion. 100% no chemicals added, suitable for organic production. Excellent source of probiotics and mycorrhizae that aid the roots in nutrient and water absorption, and for earthworms that increase organic matter in the soil.
Bottle contains 1L. Enough to make 50L of spray mix.
Pawpaws is the first in-depth guide to small-scale commercial cultivation of pawpaws. Also known as Indiana bananas or hipster bananas, this almost forgotten fruit, native to North America, is making a huge comeback with foodies, chefs, craft brewers, and discerning fruit-lovers.
Written by, and for, the organic grower, coverage includes:
- Botany and the cultural history of pawpaws
- Orchard siting and planning
- Choosing the best-quality nursery trees
- Descriptions of over 50 cultivars
- Propagation and organic growing tips
- Pests and disease management
- Marketing and selling fresh pawpaws, seeds, and starts
- Processing and producing value-added products.
Get ahead of the farming curve, diversify your orchard or food forest, and discover the commercial potential of America's almost forgotten native fruit with this comprehensive manual to small-scale commercial pawpaw production.
In this DVD—a culmination of workshops recorded in Mexico, Florida, and Massachusetts—plant specialist Eric Toensmeier introduces gardeners to more than 100 species of little-known, underappreciated plants. Ranging beyond the usual suspects (asparagus, rhubarb, and artichoke) to include such delights as ground cherry, ramps, air potatoes, the fragrant spring tree, and the much-sought-after, antioxidant-rich wolfberry (also known as the goji berry), Toensmeier explains how to raise, tend, harvest, and cook with plants that yield great crops and culinary satisfaction. Toensmeier also takes viewers on a plant-by-plant tour of his garden in Massachusetts.
Author and plant specialist Eric Toensmeier (Edible Forest Gardens) introduces gardeners to a world of little-known and wholly underappreciated plants. Perennial vegetables are perfect as part of an edible landscape plan or permaculture garden.
Profiling more than 100 species, illustrated with dozens of color photographs and illustrations, and filled with valuable growing tips, recipes, and resources, Perennial Vegetables is a groundbreaking and ground-healing book that will open the eyes of gardeners everywhere to the exciting world of edible perennials.
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Unit price perFueled by a failing economy and a passionate desire for a return to simpler times, a new wave of homesteaders is seeking the good life, and the kind of true satisfaction that can only be built, not bought. Many of these modern pioneers are cash poor, but rich in energy and creativity. Plowing with Pigs and Other Creative, Low-Budget Homesteading Solutions offers them a set of fresh ideas for achieving independence through sweat equity and the use of unconventional resources.
This highly readable and entertaining guide brings together answers to common problems faced by homesteaders young and old, urban, suburban, and rural. Traditional knowledge is combined with MacGyver-style ingenuity to create projects that maximize available resources, including:
- Animal management strategies for the yard, garden, and field
- Pole building and construction techniques from woodlot materials, including living fence how-to
- Replacing farm machinery with homemade hand tools and implements
- Leveraging increased self-sufficiency into a home-based business.
Whether you are a dreamer or a doer, Plowing with Pigs will inspire, challenge, and enable you to do more with less (and have fun doing it).
Paperback – 272 pages
7.5 Inches × 9 Inches (w × h)
Weight: 705 Grams
BISAC: TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Agriculture / Sustainable Agriculture
Publisher: New Society Publishers
ISBN: 9780865717176
Pub. Date: 2013-02-01
Root Rescue is a certified organic mycorrhizal inoculant designed to set your plants up with a symbiotic relationship that will provide benefits such as establishing new roots more easily, improving nutrient uptake, and increasing disease resistance. This company has been working with the University of Guelph since 2009 to create this cocktail of 18 species of fungi. This inoculant is suitable for any transplanting a variety of plants including hardwoods and softwoods, bushes, flowers, veggies, etc.
World-renowned expert Martin Crawford covers both common fruit bushes and lesser-known edible shrubs. He takes us on a journey into the world of exotic spice trees, shrubs with medicinal parts, and nitrogen fixing plants. All these can be grown in temperate climates, allowing us to diversify our diets and design beautiful, productive gardens while showing us how we can integrate agroforestry into our smallholdings and farms to create new income streams.
Martin Crawford's expertise has been a great resource for us and much of the information he has collected over the years has helped us to understand our own plants better.
Show off your appreciation for holistic gardening/agriculture and Silver Creek Nursery with this bandana! The pattern by Bentley Schieckoff features a variety of the fruits we grow, and our wonderful helpers including bees, worms, and birds!
The bandanas were made in Canada and are a blend of 55% hemp and 45% organic cotton.
We've got hats! You can keep the sun out of your eyes and show off your love for
Silver Creek Nursery with these nifty baseball caps!
This hat is made from 100% organic cotton.
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While in certain situations it's possible to plant a tree and forget about it until it's fruiting, that's only really possible if planting into an ecosystem that is incredibly rich and full of organic matter, and even then it's prudent to at least prune your tree occasionally to help it build a strong structure to bear the weight of the crop.
99.9% of the time, we are planting into abused, degraded soil. And without healthy soil, we simply cannot have nutrient dense, healthy plants/food. So to achieve this end, we must consider the symbiotic relationship between plants, soil, and ourselves. Below is a collection of products to help us nurture Mother Nature.
Michael Phillips developed an excellent simple spray program (click here for more), which we highly recommend. We have been using his approach since 2016 with excellent results in our orchards and nursery. Nigel Palmer also has an excellent book on making your own amendments worth checking out for further learning (see books here).
