Orchard Notes
Seasonal tips and expert guidance to help your fruit trees thrive year-round.
Drought and Sonoma Fruit Trees
This summer’s conditions are clear to anyone living in Sonoma. The landscape is more gold than green, and the area’s first red-flag warning came in early June, followed by another over the 4th of July weekend. Winter usually brings us much-needed moisture, and it did,...
Fruit Tree Safeguards for Fire Season
To live in Sonoma County is to enjoy near-perfect weather and beauty in abundance. It also means knowing the stomach-churning scent of wildfire and waking to discover a flickering orange gnawing the night's edges. The Tubbs Fire in October 2017 burned across 36,800...
5 Signs Your Fruit Tree Is Overgrown (and How It’s Hurting Your Harvest)
Do you have a no-fruit problem? As in, your Sonoma fruit trees look lush and lovely, but there's nary a fig, apple, or Meyer lemon in sight. You're not alone. A case of the harvest that never was is one of the more common fruit tree maintenance calls Sonoma Pruner...