Archive for December 1999
KETCHIKAN ORCHARD REPORT
—by Jerry Koerner Jerry Appleseed Nursery PO Box 6292 Ketchikan, AK 99901 Due to the La Nina reversal, Ketchikan experienced a very late and very cold spring in 1999, which severely effected our bloom time, pollination and ripening dates. Bloom time was delayed 4 to 6 weeks, as was the ripening dates for…
Read MoreFRUIT GROWING IN MINNESOTA- FIRST IMPRESSIONS
-by Bob Purvis (12/27/99) During the period March 1992-October 1999 my wife and I lived in Selah, WA, where I had about 245 fruit trees. At the end of October, we moved from our home there to the outskirts of St. Paul, MN, where I began work as an agricultural statistician with the…
Read MoreAPPLE GROWING NEAR EDMONTON, ALBERTA
—by Bernie Nikolai Dwight Bradley suggested I update the Alaska Pioneer Fruit Growers, with my recent experiences in apple growing in central Alberta. By way of introduction, I have an orchard of about 200 apple trees one half hour drive west of Edmonton, Alberta. My trees are from one to five years old,…
Read MoreFRUIT GROWERS FESTIVAL, EDMONTON
— B. Boyer The Fruit Growers Festival was held at Devonian Botanical Gardens on Sept 11 and 12. Devon is on the outskirts of Edmonton, Alberta. Clair Lammers and I attended from Alaska. On Saturday from 9 to 11 AM, we set up our fruit displays. Clair didn’t take any fruit this year.…
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