All of our hazelnut bushes are ready to pollinate flowers in spring!
Tag: orchard
Orchard Planting
I got our autumn orchard planting done — we’ve got ten blueberries, three seaberries, and three honey berries ready to start growing next year. We’ve got another month or so of not-yet-freezing weather; hopefully the plants have enough time to get their roots set in the ground.
Hazelnuts for the year
We got 105 hazelnuts from our bushes this year — two bushes were in their first year of nut production … so we should get a lot more next year.
Hazelnut Conclusion
The hazelnut that I have been photographing all summer is finally ripe — the final picture!
Blueberries
Now that we’ve got a peanut butter electric fence up, I’ve got some blueberry bushes planted in the orchard.
Gooseberries are flowering!
The gooseberry plants we put in last year are flowering!
Yet Another Fence Comparison
We’re getting more fencing and, yet again, I find that different lengths have different price-per-foot (and not in the way I expected where longer rolls are more cost effective). Looks like we’ll be getting a bunch of 50′ rolls instead of a few 150′ rolls.
| Item | Length | Cost Per 1 | # Required | Total |
| GardenCraft | 50 | 16.99 | 12 | 203.88 |
| YardGard | 150 | 79.99 | 4 | 319.96 |
Orchard Layout
We should finally be past freezing nights for the season, so it’s time to get the fruit plants out in the orchard. I’ve got a couple of gooseberries and a hardy fig to put somewhere. But, in the next few days, I’ll get the currants, honey berries, seaberries, pawpaw, and cherry trees planted.
