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Planting Naked-Root Fruit Timber and Vines
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Planting Naked-Root Fruit Timber and Vines

a young woman planting an Apple tree in the garden near the house . planting seedlings of fruit trees in the spring Bare-root fruit trees and vines can be planted at any time during their dormant season between leaf-fall and bud-burst–late fall to early spring–as long as the soil conditions are right and the ground

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December Vegetable Lawn Zone-by-Zone – Harvest to Desk
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December Vegetable Lawn Zone-by-Zone – Harvest to Desk

Winter vegetable garden Winter arrives on December 21. The shortest day of the year. There is never a shortage of things to do in the garden, even in winter. Update your garden records from last season and review your garden design. What worked and what can be improved this coming growing season? Now is the

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January Vegetable Lawn – Harvest to Desk
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January Vegetable Lawn – Harvest to Desk

January is the coldest month of the year in the northern hemisphere. This is the month to get seed catalogs and begin planning the spring garden. Beware of false spring days. Check with the weather service or local cooperative extension for your area’s average last frost date–the last expected frost and the start of outdoor

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Lettuce Seed Beginning – Harvest to Desk
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Lettuce Seed Beginning – Harvest to Desk

Lettuce is easily started in seed-starting trays or small pots. Lettuce started indoors can be set into the garden when plants have about four leaves, usually in three to four weeks from sowing. Lettuce Planting Distance Set lettuce in the garden 12 inches (30cm) apart if you are planting for full heads and closer if

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Naked Root Planting – Harvest to Desk
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Naked Root Planting – Harvest to Desk

Gardener planting an apple tree in to a prepared hole – variety is Bramley Bare root trees and vines are field grown, then dug during the winter when they are dormant. They are stored and shipped with all the soil removed from the roots–bare root. Bare root trees and vines are usually less expensive than

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Younger Fruit Tree Coaching and Pruning
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Younger Fruit Tree Coaching and Pruning

Young fruit trees require early training. It is best to begin training a fruit tree as soon as it is planted. Young tree training is best continued for the first three or four years of the tree’s life. Training a fruit tree includes staking, pruning, and branch spreading. All of these will help create a

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Pear Pruning – Harvest to Desk
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Pear Pruning – Harvest to Desk

Pear trees are best pruned in winter when they are dormant. There are several varieties of pear trees and habits of growth differ widely. All pear trees produce fruit from spurs on wood two- and three-years-old. Fruiting spurs should be preserved when pear trees are pruned. For a backyard pear tree, you can choose to

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March Vegetable Lawn Roundup – Harvest to Desk
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March Vegetable Lawn Roundup – Harvest to Desk

March is the month to start growing vegetables in earnest. Seed starting can begin outdoors in mild regions and indoors in cold regions. There are still six to eight weeks, maybe even ten weeks before warm-season plants can go into the garden in most cool- and cold-winter regions, but now, or soon, is the time

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Tomato Seed Beginning – Harvest to Desk
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Tomato Seed Beginning – Harvest to Desk

Tomato seedlings Start tomato seeds indoors about 6 to 8 weeks before the last frost in spring. Transplant tomato seedlings to the garden just after the last frost in spring. Here are important tips to keep in mind when you start tomatoes from seed. See also: Tomato Seed Starting Tips How to Grow Tomatoes Tomato

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Greens to Seed Get started Indoors
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Greens to Seed Get started Indoors

Crops  Tips for seed starting Onions, leeks: bulb-forming leeks and sweet Spanish and Bermuda onions require a long growing season to reach maturity, so give them a good head start. Bunching onions are ready in 55 days, dry onions in 100 days; leeks in 130 days. Start indoors 10 to 12 weeks before the last

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