I suspect the beautiful crab apple tree in our field may be the variety ‘Prairie Fire’, but I’m still not one hundred percent sure. It is beautiful in different ways every month of the year, but no month more so than May.
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Tagged: Fruit Trees
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- May 5, 2012 – 9:28 pm
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- By Ryan Nassichuk
So much is happening on the farm right now that I’m too tired to blog about it. In April the land quickly turns bright green and it feels like everything needs to be done all at once.
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Tagged: Fruit Trees
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- April 20, 2012 – 9:30 pm
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- By Ryan Nassichuk
My dear friend Alborz is visiting from Vancouver, and he and I went over to Cortes Island today to buy some bare-root nursery stock from a brilliant orchardist over there. Jessica and I now have two new plum varieties, a Brown Turkey fig, a Holstein Apple, and two St. Julian-A Plum rootstocks. Jessica and I [...]
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Tagged: Fruit Trees
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- March 17, 2012 – 11:02 pm
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- By Ryan Nassichuk
Each March, for the past three years, I’ve worked on training a client’s apple tree against a driftwood structure. The tree is finally taking the shape I desire, and I’ve been enjoying the process tremendously. It is slow-motion plant bondage. Also, while driving to our client’s property this morning, I stopped the truck along the [...]
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Tagged: Fruit Trees, Hot Sauce, Plants, Pruning
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- March 6, 2012 – 7:00 pm
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- By Ryan Nassichuk
This photo is of one of my grandfather’s espalier’d pear trees. His pruning technique is flawless, and the results speak for themselves. If you are reading this, great job, Roger (of course I know you aren’t reading this, because you think the internet is “a bunch of bullshit”).
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Tagged: Fruit Trees, Plants
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- September 2, 2011 – 7:36 pm
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- By Ryan Nassichuk