Posts Tagged ‘currant’
Orchard Report
By Tami Schlies If you’ve been to the membership forums, you’ll find a section where people are posting the results of the past winter. Very interesting to see what survived and what didn’t in various parts of the state. Like many people, I had terrible dieback on my Evans cherries. They are about eight years…
Read MoreCurrants Up North
By Travis Czechowsi I have some words on currants I would like to pass on to club members. Though personally I have grown currant bushes for 5 years now, I grew up around massive amounts of them and gooseberries in western New York State. One of the strains I have of a black currant came…
Read MoreFrom the Editor’s Garden
By Tami Schlies Another season is over, with the golden birch and cottonwoods raining down their leaves in a forecast of the snow to come. I sit at my computer once again, reworking in my mind all that has occurred in the brief summer since the last newsletter. Spring seemed to take its own sweet…
Read MorePRUNING FOR FRUIT
By Tami Schlies We have watched a lot of videos over the years on pruning apple trees, both in the early, formative years, and on old trees that need to be seriously reformed. However, I think quite a few people likely have questions on how to prune other types of fruit, or even how…
Read MoreFRUIT TREE THOUGHTS
by Bob Boyer Anchorage The following are blossoming dates (B) and fruit pick dates (P) for trees in ground or buckets. Nanking cherry. B May 5, P Sept. 26. 1 gallon. Cavalier cherry. B May 22. No fruit. Chokecherry. B May 22, didn’t pick; put Cygon 2 on tree. White Nanking cherry,…
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