Where do fruit trees flower?

Where do fruit trees flower?

This is the time of year when I stroll through my yard looking closely at the flowers on my fruit trees. Where are they? Are the flowers on branches that are growing anew right now, or on branches that grew last summer, or on older branches? Are the flowers forming...
Cara Cara navel orange tree: a profile

Cara Cara navel orange tree: a profile

Cara Caras are tasting like candy here in mid-February. They’re like a pink Jolly Rancher – even though they’re an “orange.” I hear of people harvesting Cara Caras around Christmas, and the entry for Cara Cara navel orange in the University of California at...
Grafting avocados

Grafting avocados

The skill of grafting empowers you. Being able to graft gives you options. Nursery doesn’t have a Sharwil tree for sale? If you can get your hands on a Sharwil scion, then you can make your own. Just moved into a house with a big avocado tree that makes inferior...
Avocado cukes

Avocado cukes

What’s that little pickle hanging on my avocado tree? That’s not a pickle; that’s a cuke: an avocado fruit that developed without a seed inside. It’s growing on a type of avocado tree called Ettinger, and here is what a normal Ettinger avocado...
The Yard Posts avocado calendar 2022

The Yard Posts avocado calendar 2022

The new year’s calendar is designed and being printed! This 2022 avocado calendar includes some changes and additions: Section on how to plant an avocado tree correctlyAll new photosWeeks starting on Sunday (instead of Monday, as last year)Extra information for...
Fertilizing avocado trees

Fertilizing avocado trees

In 2018, I visited the largest organic avocado farm in California. It’s those hills in the photo above — they’re covered with hundreds of acres of avocado trees. And I felt vindicated when I saw that they care for the soil under their trees in essentially...
Planting avocados in poor soil

Planting avocados in poor soil

The best thing you can do when planting an avocado tree in poor soil is to plant on a mound. How? Why? We’ll get there, but first: What is poor soil? For avocados, poor soil is soil that is not deep or has slow drainage or has high clay content. Not deep means less...

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