Rosslyn Redux

Tag: Pruning

  • Naturally Mosquito Repellent Plants for Your Garden

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    Warming temperatures, rainy-sunny-rainy days, lush green grass, spring dandelions, daffodils, hyacinths, and tulips… What’s next? Mosquitos. [pullquote]We’re incredibly fortunate in Essex to have very few mosquitos… But from time-to-time the noisome bloodsuckers nevertheless find us.[/pullquote] We’re incredibly fortunate in Essex to have very few mosquitos. Perhaps it’s the omnipresent breeze wafting across Lake Champlain. But…

  • Holistic Orcharding: Fruitful and Deer-full

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    Geo Davis
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    I’m excited to report that we may finally be able to enjoy Rosslyn peaches, nectarines, and even a few pears and apples this summer. For the first time since we began planting an orchard, several trees have matured enough to set fruit. Fruitful Orchard Those bright red mulberry will darken as they soak up sun and…

  • Hail Storm & Apple Tree

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    Geo Davis
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    [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNMPDFK5xPw&w=600&rel=0] An ancient and neglected apple tree. Actually some sort of crab apple tree with fruit the size of golf balls. Large golf balls that were tart but delicious. Griffin loved to scarf them up when they carpeted the lawn in autumn. For six years I pruned and nourished the crab apple tree back to…

  • Orchard Rumination

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    Geo Davis
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    Lately I’ve been reflecting on all the trees I wish I’d planted in the fall of 2006 and the spring of 2007. We’ve been adding new trees for a year now — a half dozen or so each spring and fall — and yet I can’t help but imagine what might be today if I’d…