Archive for May 1991
Establishing Tissue Cultured Red Raspberries
Most of the following information was gleaned from the 1991 Proceedings of the Illinois Small Fruit and Strawberry Schools and the North American Bramble Growers Association meeting in St. Petersburg. We thought a quick review would be worthwhile. Tissue culture (TC) is a system whereby small portions of a plant, normally buds, are grown…
Read MoreSEED EXCHANGE RUSSIA/ALASKA
Over the past three years I have had the opportunity to meet with several delegations from The Russian Siberian Horticultural community. Their mission is to develop fruits vegetables, and grains that can survive winter temperatures as low as -65°F and yield well in latitudes that have a short summer with Iona cool days. Many Alaskan…
Read MoreGROWING FRUIT TREES AND MUCH MORE IN TOK
Last winter (89-90) we dropped to -50 F and had a lot of snow. There was considerable damage from snow mold. We occasionally had snow mold in Michigan, but it never seemed to be harmful. Here last winter we lost a lot of our strawberries (‘Toklat’, ‘Pioneer’ and an old variety from friends of friends…
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