Fall Raspberry Prep Without Spending Much
September is the window for fall raspberry prep in the Pacific Northwest, and it closes fast. A little cane cleanup, some free mulch, and smart watering now means a much better harvest next summer.
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Dormant Fig Tree Pruning and Free Cuttings
Dormant fig tree pruning isn’t complicated, but the timing matters more than most people think. Here’s how to manage size in a small yard, protect both the breba and main crop, and get free new trees from the branches you cut off.
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Pruning Raspberries: When and How to Cut Them Back
Raspberry pruning is one of those late-winter jobs that pays off big in July. Get the timing wrong and you’ll either lose this year’s fruit or spend summer fighting a thorny mess. Here’s how to do it without overthinking it.
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Stop Sunscald on Tomatoes with Cheap Shade
Sunscald on tomatoes and peppers shows up as white papery patches and it’s almost always caused by fruit that suddenly has no shade. Learn how to prevent it with cheap materials you already own, why over-pruning makes it worse, and how to salvage fruit that’s already been hit.
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Summer Tomato Growing Mistakes and Cheap Fixes
I killed a lot of tomato plants before I admitted it was my fault. These are the most common summer tomato mistakes I kept making, and the cheap fixes that actually helped once I stopped ignoring the problems.
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The Sucker’s Guide to Pruning Tomatoes
If your indeterminate tomatoes are huge, leafy, and not producing much fruit, the suckers are probably to blame. Here’s how to prune them in ten minutes a week with no special tools and actually get tomatoes out of the deal.
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Sucker Punch: Why I Finally Started Pruning My Tomatoes (And What Happened)
I grew tomatoes for four years without ever pruning a sucker. Turns out I was growing a lot of plant and not a lot of tomatoes. Here’s what changed and why it matters right now in July.
