How to assemble the chafer stand                What's the difference?                How to fix and maintain Wrap-N-Guards

The No Spill Grill & a little of what it can do.

With the No Spill Grill you are only limited to your imagination. This multi use functional piece of equipment works well indoors and outdoors. It can be used in the oven or on the grill. It can help you make the best monster poppers or half poppers that you have ever had. It can make desserts, appetizers, entree items and anything you want it to do.

The basics of the Train-A-Tree system      Think about tree structure for backyard orchard culture              Bling your tree

What is blinging your tree? you take the Train-A-Tree weight blocks and enhance their functionality with whatever makes you happy. If you like flowers, get your glue gun out and glue whatever plastic or silk flower you like to your weights and hang them in your trees or bushes to make them more beautiful while training the tree. If you like sports, paint them your teams colors, add stickers or buttons. Let everyone know who your favorite team is. What a conversation piece. Put birds or butterflies use your imagination.

What is tree structure? it's how you set your tree up for it's life. Structures like central leader (think of a christmas tree, one main trunk) vase or modified, open center with three or four branches that come off of a main trunk. You can do a Y format. Think of what you are trying to accomplish, a large shade tree, a small fruit bush, do you have a larger 360 degree area (I know I state 365 in the video, sorry,), are you up against a wall so you have 180 degrees. Do you want espalier. All of these options are made easier and better with the Train-A-tree system. 

Growing Blueberries Part 1   Growing Blueberries Part 2 Growing in a pot   Growing Blueberries Part 3 Bare root

Blueberries are great to grow,  they produce one of the best tasting pieces of fruit you will ever eat. They are easy to grow if you set them up for success. We grow ours in pots so that we can control the soil acidity. Blueberries need low acid soil to be productive. The want a soil of 4 to 5.5 acid level. An easy way to get a soil like that is: 1/3 peat moss, 1/3 azalia potting mix, 1/3 small bark, some soil sulphr. a little cotton seed meal. That could get you to the range but other options are available to make a perfect blueberry soil.

Using the Train-A-Tree spreaders and weights can set your plants up for a long healthy, more productive life. Train-A-tree will enhance your fruit loads by atleast 2 times if you use them properly. 

Reducing the size of your tree part 1 Reducing the size of your tree part 2  Forcing new growth in citrus part 1 Tango Mandarine

Restructuring a tree / starting over Gold nugget  New growth part 2   Using weights and spreaders to open the tree

Growing Peaches & Nectarines Part 1  Growing Peaches & Nectarines Part 2

If you know how Peaches & Nectarines produce fruit you will be able to maximize your fruit loads year after year. Peaches & Nectarines produce on last years new growth and will never produce fruit again on that branch. So when you know what to remove and what to leave on the tree you will always have fruit in the following years. The key is to build a strong structured tree. With the Train-A-Tree program you will accomplish your this tasks, a stronger tree for enhanced fruit loads.

Growing Avocados part 1

Growing avocados is so easy when you use the Train-A-Tree system. You can keep your trees smaller while producing more fruit. Fruit grows on horizontal branching. Trees want to grow more vertically. With the Train-A-tree program you can level out your trees, keep them smaller, make them stronger, easier to prune, maintain and produce more quality fruit. This process is almost impossible without Train-A-Tree. Avocado trees will grow to 60 ft if you allow them too. If you want a shade tree, great grow it huge. If you want a production tree, keep them small with more fruiting branches. It's all about the fruiting branches, not just the size of the tree. You can put four varieties in the same space as one large tree. Here are a few huge benefits: smaller trees require a lot less water, they are easier to care for, easier to harvest, produce more productive fruiting branches, producing more fruit. Isn't that what we all want? Orchards are converting to high density plantings, they are no longer growing massive un-managable almost un-harvestable trees.

Growing apples part 1

Apples are easy to grow. We are learning more and more about growing apples all the time. Apples grow on horizontal branching. Apple branching want to grow vertical. To be productive you need them to be horizontal at about 10 oclock & 2 oclock on the time clock. The best way to get there is with the Train-A-Tree system. You can force your tree to produce more fruit by getting to the proper branch angles.  Remember it is not about the size of the tree, it's about the fruting branches. You need more fruiting branches. You will get them with Train-A-Trees.

Pluots, Asian Pears & Plums                Apriums & Nectaplums

Growing Hybrid fruits is a lot of fun. Not to mention the unbelievable fruit we get from them. You can grow plants in lot's of un-conditional locations. Think outside the box. Stop thinking traditional large fruit trees and think smaller more managable fruit bushes that are strong with lots of fruiting branches with heavy fruit loads. These trees are being grown in a small tucked away location. You can do that too!.