by Annika Sampson | Jun 10, 2024
Kiwi berries in bloom. This week we’re keeping busy with fruit thinning, strawberry harvest, starting some summer pruning on young apples, and doing some burning of left-over stone fruit prunings before the weather turns too dry for such things. We’ll also be doing...
by Annika Sampson | Jun 6, 2024
Metallic green sweat bee pollinating Douglas’ meadowfoam in Nursery Co-Manager Edward’s Bellingham garden Pollinators are some of your greatest allies when it comes to your home garden and orchard – not to mention the essential role they play for the...
by Annika Sampson | Jun 3, 2024
Gravenstein apples sizing quickly. This week we’ve got fruit set and sizing on the brain – we’ll be doing our first harvest of the season (June-bearing strawberries are right on time) and working to get quickly-sizing apples and peaches fruit...
by Annika Sampson | May 27, 2024
First red strawberry off our June-Bearers This week we’re back in the prolonged PNW spring with plenty of rain holding off the need to irrigate. We started this early spring about 2 weeks ahead of last year in terms of tree development and degree days, but the...
by Annika Sampson | May 20, 2024
An impressive fruit strig on a Rovada Red Currant. This week top of mind is managing early season fertility, pest and disease, as well as catching up on mowing, cover crop seeding, and understory management. With trees leafing out we’re seeing signs of spring insect...
