Tag Archive for: Fruit
How to Tell if Pears Are Ripe
In this short video, NCAT Horticulture Specialist Guy Ames takes…
Pear Trees Exemplify Resilience
Resilience is the latest buzzword in the lexicon of sustainable agriculture... and for good reason. Resilience is the ability to recover or bounce back after a challenge or setback.
By Guy Ames, NCAT Horticulture Specialist
By Guy Ames, NCAT Horticulture Specialist
Avocados: Fruit Set Challenges and Propagation
Like all plants, avocados have secrets to share; understanding the plants we grow can unlock their potential and bring a deeper understanding of the ecology in our own back yards. Here are a few considerations for your backyard avocados, as well as a propagation technique that can be used on a number of plants.
By Omar Rodriguez
NCAT Agriculture Specialist
By Omar Rodriguez
NCAT Agriculture Specialist
What the Brown Rot Hath Wrought
I don't grow peaches. That unhappy confession is despite the fact that I grow peach trees. And rot. I grow a lot of brown rot.
By Guy Ames, NCAT Horticulture Specialist
By Guy Ames, NCAT Horticulture Specialist
Battling Borers in Organic Apple Production
By Guy Ames, NCAT Horticulturist
Organic apple production…
Root Propagation
I developed a love of plants as a young boy, helping my father in his yard-of-the-month winning front yard. I hated pruning roses, but everything else was so amazing to me. I think the thing that really hooked me was propagation, although I didn’t know the word for it back then. When I realized I could make a whole new plant from just a piece of another, it did something permanent to my little mind that is still with me today.
By Justin Duncan, NCAT Agriculture Specialist
By Justin Duncan, NCAT Agriculture Specialist
Growing Vegetable Transplants in the Greenhouse
Earlier this spring, my wife and I got a 12x16 foot greenhouse for our small farm to use for starting vegetable and flower transplants for our garden. The greenhouse arrived just in time, before COVID-19 restrictions went into place in our state. We have been able to start our tomatoes, peppers, basil, zinnias, cosmos, and other garden transplants in the greenhouse and I wanted to share some of our techniques for growing quality plants at home or on a small farm.
By Luke Freeman, NCAT Horticulture Specialist
By Luke Freeman, NCAT Horticulture Specialist
Improving Seed Viability and Germination
Vegetable growers are hustling to start seeds in order to have transplants ready to go in to the ground once the soil has warmed up and dried out.
By Andy Pressman
NCAT Northeast Regional Director
By Andy Pressman
NCAT Northeast Regional Director
Peach Leaf Curl
I’m seeing peach leaf curl in my orchard. It’s April, but the calendar date is not as important as the growth stage of the peaches.
By Guy K. Ames
NCAT Horticulture Specialist In Northwest Arkansas
By Guy K. Ames
NCAT Horticulture Specialist In Northwest Arkansas
What is Peach Leaf Curl?
In springtime, peach growers will see the last remnants of the…