The use of pesticides, insecticides, herbicides, synthetic fertilizers, etc. is at an all-time high, especially among large agriculture growers. Why? Modern agricultural practices involve growing single crop species in high-density plantings in hundreds of acres of fields at a time. Now if you were an insect, what does that kind of farming look like to [...]
Tag Archives: fruit trees
Ultra-low Maintenance Food Producing Garden
I recently got a gardening question from a reader on facebook that went something like this: “We have 3 acres and a small cabin. . . . Any ideas of perennial food plants I could set in a cold climate and let grow wild? . . . probably zone 4.” There are lots of options [...]
Fruit Cocktail Trees
Horticulturists have had a lot of fun creating fruit cocktail trees, which is a single tree that bears a variety of different fruit. The concept of creating a fruit cocktail tree is simple. It’s done through grafting limbs of different fruit trees all onto a single common stalk or tree that functions as the base [...]
Dwarfing in Fruit Trees
A lot of fruit trees these days are sold as miniatures, dwarfs, or semi-dwarfs. The reasons for the production of reduced-size fruit trees are many: 1) they’re easier to maintain in general (you have less tree to prune, fertilize, water, etc.), 2) they produce fruit sooner and more often, 3) they produce superior fruit altogether, [...]
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