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1998 ORCHARD REPORTS
FAIRBANKS—Clair Lammers Our growing season started at the normal time of year!” We had NO rain until July 11. I started irrigating May 27th. We had “the best year ever”. I ripened 93 varieties of apples for a total of 1239 pounds, 8 varieties of plums for 67 pounds, 5 varieties of pear…
Read MoreWINTER 1996-97 SURVIVAL
WINTER 1996-97 SURVIVAL -by Clair Lammers Coldest temp was -42 on 1-13-97 with a snow cover of 22 inches. The first freeze was 10-3-96 with a +26; last freeze on 5-14-97 with a +27. Total rainfall for 1996 as 6.63 inches. On average, our spring was 7-10 days later than normal. To understand this…
Read MoreORCHARD REPORT – Interior Summer 1995
by Clair Lammers Fairbanks Pick dates of my various fruits. (Apples unless otherwise stated. * = new variety) Variety Date Picked Mesabi cherry 7/30 Pin cherry 7/30 Nanking cherry 7/30 Elderberry 8/4 Ground cherry 8/17 (P. fruitcosa) Chinese Golden Early 8/19 Dawn 8/21 *Sylvia 8/23 Parkland 8/26 Ptitson #5 plum 8/28 Heyer…
Read MoreORCHARD REPORT, June 3, 1995 – Fairbanks
— By Clair hammers 1364 Esro Road Fairbanks, Alaska 99712 907-488-6446 Our coldest temperature was -38° on January 27 with a snow cover of approximately 36 inches. On the average, our g started about one week earlier than last year but on May 22, we had a hard freeze of +22°F — so…
Read MoreFRUIT-RIPENING DATES IN FAIRBANKS
—by Clair hammers I had a very good apple, plum, and cherry plum crop this-year. No pears or apricots. I also had some grapes (Valiant) and elderberries for the first time. One of my elderberries set two different crops about a month apart — and they both got ripe. The following is the…
Read MoreFRUIT TREES IN INTERIOR ALASKA
By Robert Fox Back when I was five years old, my grandmother would send me out to the old peach tree to pick the makings of a wonderful peach cobbler pie. How I loved those pies! Many years later, I found myself in Fairbanks, Alaska, wondering what it would be like to grow…
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