Week of December 25, 2022
The inaugural entry to the TAProots blog was on December 25, 2018, with weekly blogs through four years (2019-2022) with approximately...
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Week of December 11, 2022
In the Florida garden, the Christmas holiday is ushered in by the parade of Camellia Japonica blooms, which are starting now and will...
Week of November 27, 2022
The citrus fruit season has just arrived at our Florida garden with lots of fruit ripening on eleven of our seventeen citrus trees. The...
Week of November 20, 2022
CAMELLIA SASANQUA bushes lead the Camellia parade which will continue in the Florida Garden for another two or three months. These...
Week of November 13, 2022
One feature of the Florida Garden that none of our previous gardens had is the CYCAD family of bushes and small trees. This ancient...
Week of November 6, 2022
This is the transition season for our Florida Garden. The weather has remained summer-like, with the persimmon crop winding down and the...
Week of October 30, 2022
The Florida Garden tends to fade as the perennials (Pentas, Lantanas, Firebush) gradually lose their blossoms for supporting our local...
Week of October 23, 2022
As the autumn progresses to colder weather and completion of the harvest, HUNTING SEASON becomes a popular pastime in the Finger Lakes. ...
Week of October 16, 2022
Our fall harvest includes the collection of edible nuts: walnuts at TAProots vineyard and CHESTNUTS at our Florida garden. This year,...
Week of October 9, 2022
A project for the summer was to add to the BLUEBIRD HOUSES at TAProots Vineyard. Three sets of two bluebird houses each have been put up...
Week of October 2, 2022
The main events of the 2022 harvest have culminated in 44 tons of Concord grapes delivered to the juice factory and 1030 pounds of...
Week of September 25, 2022
A return to TAProots vineyard was necessary this year, because for the first time in seven years, we have a RIESLING HARVEST. Riesling...
Week of September 18, 2022
The return to the Florida Garden after being away for 12 weeks creates some anxiety as to how the CITRUS trees have fared. We still have...
Week of September 11, 2022
We return to our Florida home after enjoying our Upstate New York Lakehouse for almost three months. Our Florida gardens are planted...
Week of September 4, 2022
The RIESLING grape has emerged as the standard-bearer for Finger Lakes wines over the past 20 years and currently wins most of the...
Week of August 28, 2022
The highlight of this week at TAProots vineyard is an ARTSHOW, organized in the TAProots wine cellar. The pictures and sculptures were...
Week of August 21, 2022
August and September at TAProots Farm features STONEFRUIT, namely peaches and nectarines, with apricot trees not yet yielding fruit. The...
Week of August 14, 2022
BLACKBERRIES have always been a popular feature of TAProots Vineyard. Three or four varieties provide a rather long picking season,...
Week of August 7, 2022
TAProots Vineyard is a working farm without a doubt, but efforts have been made to beautify the barn and surroundings. A few things have...
Week of July 31, 2022
TAProots Vineyard continues to expand the number of grape varieties and the amount of vineyard planted, to now include five areas of...
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