MSU Extension Backyard Fruit

Showing results for content tagged 'backyard fruit'. Search instead for the keyword 'backyard fruit'.

• 

  Backyard Fruit

  MSU extension provides an educational opportunity for you to gain knowledge and experience incorporating various types of fruit into your diet.

---

• When to harvest your garden

  Published on August 11, 2011
  Know when your vegetables are at the peak of perfection and are ready to be picked.

• Proper pruning means healthier, more productive fruit trees

  Published on February 18, 2011
  Prune fruit trees when you plant them by establishing a vigorous leader and a number of well-spaced side limbs.

• Shopping for the gardener on your list

  Published on November 16, 2011
  Unsure what to get the gardener in your life this holiday season? We polled MSU Extension educators to learn what’s on their wish list (and perhaps on yours, too).

• 

  Cranberry harvest in Michigan

  Published on October 21, 2016
  What I learned about harvesting cranberries after visiting DeGrandchamp Farms in South Haven, Michigan, to see the cranberry harvest.

• 

  Garden smarter with Michigan State University Extension programs

  Published on August 14, 2017
  If you haven’t heard of Michigan State University Extension’s Smart Gardening initiative, its goal is to promote earth friendly and sustainable practices that will save gardeners time, effort and money.

• 

  Revitalize blueberries with renovation

  Published on May 28, 2015
  Cutting down old blueberry bushes yields a vigorous crop of new shoots.

• Michigan summer berries are off to a fast start: Harvest is early and quality is great!

  Published on June 7, 2012
  Michigan summer berry season is three weeks early this year. Early spring berry harvest is underway and that means the season will end early as well.

• 

  Rhubarb: A spring-time delicacy with pucker power

  Published on March 20, 2018
  Rhubarb is thriving in home gardens this time of year. When little else is available in the garden to eat, rhubarb gets us ready for even more Michigan grown foods.

• 

  Evenings in the Garden spring 2017 series

  Published on April 6, 2017
  MSU Tollgate Farm is rolling out new Evenings in the Garden spring series starting April 15, 2017.

• 

  Beautiful gardens are also resource-responsible

  Published on February 14, 2018
  Learn earth-friendly and resource-responsible techniques that’ll make your garden shine at the 2018 Grand Rapids Smart Gardening Conference on March 3.

• 

  Michigan produces a bumper chestnut crop

  Published on November 18, 2016
  Chestnut harvest in Michigan is estimated to have doubled in 2016.

• Wind chill doesn’t really matter to a plant

  Published on January 21, 2014
  It’s the temperature of the air that matters to a plant, not the wind chill. Calm air can get much colder.

• Pollinator gardens can be effective educational tools

  Published on November 14, 2012
  Food systems and ecology are tied together and can be demonstrated in pollinator gardens.

• Gardening with kids starts now

  Published on September 25, 2012
  Regardless of the time of year, it is always a good time to start gardening with kids. Engaging kids in gardening is beneficial to their nutrition and health.

• Soil test before you plant blueberries

  Published on December 17, 2012
  A simple soil test reveals whether blueberries will struggle or thrive in a new site.

• 

  How do I get rid of sandhill cranes in my yard and garden?

  Published on June 5, 2015
  Here are suggestions for getting uninvited dinner guests like sandhill cranes to vacate.

• Got worms in your raspberries?

  Published on September 5, 2013
  Home gardeners are learning about – and probably eating – our newest pest of small fruit: the spotted wing Drosophila.

• Spring fertilization of garden fruits

  Published on April 4, 2013
  Proper fertility is an important factor for high quality garden fruit production.

• 

  Rejuvenating old fruit trees

  Published on November 13, 2015
  Winter is the perfect time to start shaping up overgrown and neglected trees for a productive harvest next season.

• Selecting strawberry varieties for your garden

  Published on January 9, 2013
  How to be a smart gardener when choosing strawberry varieties to grow.