Pruning
How To Grow Tomatoes
Tuesday, September 9th, 2008Yes! The first tomatoes are finally ripe. They’re late because the ones I originally planted were cut down by killer slugs. That was a tough one since those original ones I sowed indoor where they germinated in my windowsill and grew up to become sound 20 cm (8 inch) plants. I’m not sure what to [...]
Pruning Blackberry
Sunday, August 31st, 2008I have a blackberry bush i my garden that has been growing a little wild on it’s own. It’s all over the place as you can see in the picture above. Now I would still like to have many blackberries year after year so I’ll have to prune it. A blackberry bears fruit on one [...]
How To Prune Black Currant
Monday, August 18th, 2008Our new black currant was picked up from the nursery and planted this year. It produced a small amount of fruit which have all been eaten by now, so I thought I would do some pruning to get more fruit next year. It turns out that black currant bushes produces the most fruit on 2 [...]
Pruning Red Currants
Sunday, August 17th, 2008This weekend I had planned on pruning the red currant, since the birds already ate all of the fruit during my one week vacation. So I wanted to get this task checked off, but it turns out that a red currant bush produce most fruit on 2 and 3 year old shoots. It looks like [...]
