APPLE 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,…

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INCREASING APPLE CULTIVAR HARDINESS TO -40° F

  —by Bernie Nikolai 14012-86 Ave. Edmonton, Alberta T5R4B2   (Reprinted from Pomona, v. 25, no. 4, Fall 1994, with permission)   For about the last five years I’ve been experimenting with attempting to significantly increase the hardiness of tender apple cultivars to enable them to survive and produce after prairie Canada’s long, very harsh…

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