Daniel's Pacific NW Garden

Red Norland and Yukon Gold Potatoes.  7.24.17  Lots of productivity in the Kitchen garden, and starting to get fruit from the home orcha...

Home Orchard.  11.8.15 Home Orchard.  11.8.15 This is the main orchard at 3 years.  There are also fig trees by the house and in th...

Raining today.  Thinking about next year.  Replace some trees that died, and plan for a couple that might, and replace a couple of non- p...

Orchard Cleanup.  11.9.14 Not much to clean up.  I'm changing approach to soil surface.  Previously, I planted various herbs around ...

 The order from Raintree Nursery came today.  I've ordered from them many times.  As always, very well packaged.  The packing is shred...

Okra Seedlings Seed and Cutting Setup Today didn't do much.  In winter garden work can be when I feel like it. Noted the okra...

Home Orchard The little orchard is ready for winter.  This week I added a layer of leaf compost on top of the mulch surrounding each tre...

No photos today.  Doesn't look like much. I mowed the little orchard , until rain started.  I used the grass catcher, and collected gr...

This is the recipe I used for Cherry Crisp using tart pie cherries from the North Star Cherry tree. All along the plan was to make a cherr...

Surefire Cherry Surefire tart cherries This was a good day for fruit.  Sweet cherries, tart cherries, raspberries, and strawberries....

Hollywood Plum. Fruit set is the best I've ever seen for this tree. Promising. Shiro Plum. Ditto.

Neighbor had 2 seedling apricot trees they've been growing for a number of years. They wanted to give them away, so here we are! Nice ...

Planted these today. The Catnip and Lemon Balm are listed in companion planting books as beneficial to various vegetables. I don't k...

Now it's fall. It's chilly.  It's raining every day. Good time to move some more trees, I think. Better than summer, when I mo...

Went to the meeting today. It was a great experience. I felt like I was among kindred spirits. Lots of fruit to view and taste. Zillions...

Here's how the little orchard is progressing. I've planted all 3 of the planned Paw Paws, the unplanned Toka and Satsuma Plums (fro...

Just when the plums are finishing, the Asian pears are ripening. Cool!

A good crop of tree ripened plums - enough to share with friends and coworkers, who loved them. Grocery store plums are hard and sour. The...

Here are the mud-plugs carefully applied by orchard mason bees last summer. I noticed today that about 1/4 of them are poked out. Is it a...