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Treat your vineyards like a ledger, like a living one. Each year you reap its fruit, but so do you when you reap time from … Read more

MAY: You bought a seedling of basil, planning on turning it into pesto through October. JULY: It’s a lovely green thing, all lush. But somewhere … Read more

When you plant raspberry canes, do you get worried that maybe it was too late to plant them in time for this seasons crop? Or … Read more

In May, your recently planted grapevine appears as nothing more than a stick. The holes are dug, the trellis built, and now there’s budbreak. What … Read more

Growing raspberries requires one particular type of patience: not only must you water them, but also identify what cane you’re looking at. In spring, you … Read more

Raspberry rows are like trees: Most gardeners apply fertilizer each spring to these woody plants, yet only pay attention when harvest diminishe, as if to … Read more

When you plant a blueberry bush, you hope it will get up quickly and go tall, right? Wrong. It will more likely stay small for … Read more

When you plant a grapevine, the expectation is that it will bear its first crop in year three. But it might just produce leaves in … Read more

The jalapeno is technicaly a tender perennial, but most of us grow it like an annual since frost will kill the plant. If you didn’t … Read more

Woody plant like blueberries may last decades if their wood’s managed and soils’ chemistry is right. But how many more years can a patch of … Read more

There’s always a certain moment in the summer where your cucumber patch run out of steam. The vines is still alive and green, but somehow, … Read more