A nice sunny warm Spring day, a good day for planting my Copra onions. This onion is a good keeper when stored in a cool place during the winter months. They will keep 10-12 months and grows to be 3-4 inches wide. Good bold flavor.

I also planted Red Zeppelin. This is a purple onion that will keep after harvest about 8 months. Has a good flavor. I like to use them in salads. It grows to about 4 inches wide.

I got my onion sets from Andersons Seed and Garden. You can get them in the early spring.

I amend my soil in the fall, so in the spring my raised beds are ready to plant in the spring.

The onion in this picture is the last onion I had in storage planted last spring 2012. We used this onion for our Easter Dinner on March 31, 2013.

Happy planting.

Lindy

This is a picture of my Macintosh apple tree before pruning.

Ladder
Hand pruner
Loppers
Saw
You will need gloves

For pruning tips this is a good website on gardening andersonsseedgarden and here utahstateextension

Pruned Macintosh apple tree.

Flaming Fury Peach Tree

This has been a very good peach tree for our Zone 4 region in Utah.

I’ve had the tree for about 10 years.

Pruned Flaming Fury Peach Tree

I don’t know if I always make the right cuts but I learn more every year I prune my trees.

Flowering plum is not a favorite tree but it gets really pretty flowers in the spring and a ton of little plums in the fall and they make such a mess!

This is my sad Dwarf Bartlett Pear Tree. It has had such issues it keeps getting fire blight. Utahstateextension I don’t know how much longer it will live. I pruned out the water sprouts, these are the branches that shoot straight up in the air. I’m not pruning much because if fire blight comes back I will have to prune it again. I could treat with a spray but the treatment is expensive but I do spray all my fruit trees with Lime Sulfur and Dormant Oil in the spring right after pruning. Find more about spraying here Utahstateextension and here Andersonsseedandgarden

Pruning is hard work! I will have to have professionals come and prune when my trees get to big and tall.

Enjoy pruning!

Lindy

Pruned Red Delicious Apple Tree