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Took a bud off Elyas (Which is open pollinated from unknown early varieties). This has to be inner bud tissue being pushed with the leaves and has no chlorophyll? Never seen this before.

Elyas is looking pretty strange. Leaves and petals are just emerging and are long and slender. Need to keep an eye on him this week.

We get new robins every year.

test post on the new system

Hazelnuts sprouting

Couple of row covers and some incandescent Christmas lights kept these couple of trees about 10 degrees warmer than o...

Future cider

Half of my apples are blooming and here comes the freeze. ðŸ˜

And it's the first apple to bloom, even before Maypole.
Idared X OP 2022 - 4

Red wood, leaves, and buds. Good chance it will be a red fleshed apple?

Pea mutant in the gutter peas

Red leaved seedling apple going to bloom this year. 4 years old on its own roots.

Idared x OP 2022 - 4

Eastern white pine (Pinus strobus) from my county extension for about a dollar and a half a piece. Felt like robbery,...

Apple grafting day. Bench grafting for a new cider row in the orchard and top working some existing trees.

Trying ou...

Happy Spring Equinox

Perimeter defenses deployed. 🤣 Trying all the non toxic ways to deter the upcoming slug onslaught. Can't hurt at l...

Pussy willow catkins. Another sign of spring.

Snowing outside, but its time to start onions, leeks, and cabbages.

Wonder who did that lol 🐇

Hazel catkins

Stay warm out there.

Winter is back

Top dressing the raised beds with chicken compost...in January. Climate change is something else. It was 60°F / 15...

Germination testing 3 year old saved onion and leek seeds.
Rossa di Milano onions
Bulgarian Giant Leeks (overwintere...