Archive for April 1992
ALASKA PIONEER FRUIT GROWERS SCIONWOOD AVAILABLE FOR GRAFTING IN APRIL 1992
Adams County Nursery. Sweet cherries: Gold Viscount Vista, and Ulster. Bear Creek Nursery. Apples: Almata, Breaky, Champlain, Chenango Strawberry, Discovery, Dudley, Early Joe, Geneva Early, Goodland Heyer 20, High Top Sweet, July Red Lowland Raspberry, Mantet Norland Oriole, Palouse, Patton, Pecks Pleasant, Quinte, Rosthern 18, Sops of Wine, and Sweet Sixteen. Christian Homesteading…
Read MoreVARIETY EVALUATION RECORDS
By Erik Simpson All pioneer fruit growers should keep accurate records of their cultivars in order to document what they are doing and to record their successes and failures. The reasons for your successes can be written down for you and others to duplicate in the future. Tour failures can also be written down…
Read MoreEUROPEAN PLUMS FOR ALASKA
By Bob Purvis Over the past 10 years, a number of early-ripening apple varieties have become available to Alaskan fruit growers. Only a little work has been done, however, on finding European plum (Prunus domestics) cultivars suitable for Alaska, but there are some good reasons for considering them for home orchards south of the…
Read MoreSOME TIPS FROM GARFIELD SHULTS
By Bob Boyer Garfield Shults, an earnest experimental grafter from Homedale, Idaho, says that cherry plums will double or triple in size if budded on apricot rootstock. He also says that when grafted, trees will grow much faster and produce earlier if fertilized with “Rico Verde”, a product of Agronics. 701 Madison NE,…
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