Today's Tip: Donate some spare apples & pears to a local food bank if you’ve had an abundant harvest!
Are you wondering when to prune your fruit trees? Are bugs bugging your berry patch? Do you need hands-on advice to create a fruitful berry garden and home orchard? It’s at your finger tips right here - Stella Otto, horticulturist, teacher, and award winning author shares her years of experience and answers your questions while guiding you on the path to many fruitful harvests!
December 9, 2013
Situations where strawberry plants are more exposed to soil freezing and the root and crown damage that accompanies it bear special consideration. This would include plants grown in raised beds, pyramids, barrels, and pots. Ideally moving container grown plants to a protected but unheated garage may help protect them from wind dessication and mild freezing. […]
In my last post, I talked about using straw or other natural mulch to protect strawberries from winter freeze damage. Floating row covers can be used as an alternative or adjunct to natural mulches. They offer the advantages of increasing yield and an earlier harvest because light penetrates the row cover and more flower blossoms […]
December 6, 2013
From 44°F to 14°F in 2 days; it’s these dramatic temperature fluctuations in a short time that wrecks havoc with fruiting plants. Add to that a wind chill that put temperatures in the single digits and you have a recipe for tissue desiccation (drying out) and crown injury to exposed strawberry plants. Early in the […]
Stella Otto has a B.S. in Horticulture, fruit production specialization, from Michigan State University. She resides in northern Michigan’s Leelanau county, Cherry Capital of the world. She gardens together with her husband, son, and daughter. Their 2 horses contribute copiously to the compost pile, while their 3 cats handle some pest control patrol.
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