When you are in charge of an orchard, you want everything to run as smoothly as possible. Now that you’ve used frost covers to protect your young trees, pesticides to fight the pests, and fungicides to prevent fungal growth, your orchard has arrived at a very crucial time: harvest season.Of course, you’re not in the [...]
If you run an orchard, what do you need? Good soil, of course. Water, fertilizer, workers to pick the fruit once it’s on the trees.Oh yeah, and you also need the trees themselves to make it an orchard! There’s no orchard without trees, and there’s no big and fruitful trees unless you’ve planted and protected [...]
In our previous article, we discussed some basic gardening tools that can help keep someone comfortable when gardening. Kneelers can make planting new plants more comfortable, gloves can protect their hands, and hats can keep someone from getting heat stroke or sunburn.But when it comes to orchard supply tools, it’s a much different scenario. No [...]
If you’re here at Frostproof Growers Supply, you’re either interested in getting tools for orchards or some garden hand tools for the your gardening and landscaping project. If you’re here for the former, we have many ways to help those who are working in an orchard be more comfortable: property-balanced orchard picking bags and lumbar-supporting [...]
Here at Frostproof, we’re big fans of using the right garden hand tool for the right job. We think it’s good idea to use a grafting knife when you’re grafting instead of just grabbing any old knife out of the toolbox. We think it’s best to use a professional picking bag that won’t bust under [...]
We know that not everyone who stops by Frostproof Growers Supply is directly involved in orchard care, but many of the items we sell are, indeed, for those who are in the industry of growing plants for sale. Now that we’re in spring and many of the plants that are started indoors during the summer [...]
Whether you run an orchard or simply have a few trees in your backyard, there are going to be times when you need to spray an herbicide, fungicide, or pesticide. Here are the best tools to use to get the job done efficiently.Backpack SprayersBackpack sprayers are the most popular type of sprayers that an individual [...]
When most people think about spring cleaning, they often think about the inside of the house. After all, the nice spring weather allows you to open the windows and use stronger cleaners, leave the back door open so that you can head to the outdoor trash can, and put rugs over the clothesline to give [...]
In our most recent article, we detailed the ways in which you can prepare your trees so that they come back even stronger from their dormant time in winter. And it got us thinking about just how much we love trees and how much we hope that people will be as good to them as [...]
While there are parts of the country that never see snow, there are many of our customers to the north who are eagerly awaiting spring so that they can get back to their usual warm weather activities. But if you live in parts of the country with a lot of snow and trees that lose [...]