Posts Tagged ‘gooseberry’
From the Editor’s Garden
By Tami Schlies Another season is over, with the golden birch and cottonwoods raining down their leaves in a forecast of the snow to come. I sit at my computer once again, reworking in my mind all that has occurred in the brief summer since the last newsletter. Spring seemed to take its own sweet…
Read MoreAugust 2002 Tours
by DAN ELLIOT APFG Members had an enjoyable and educational visit to Gene and Alaine Dinkle’s on Fairview Loop Road in Wasilla on a wet evening in August. From giant cabbages to little crabapples, we were impressed by the variety and productivity of the established plantings. The prolific, large clump of red currant was called…
Read MoreFeatured Fruit — Gooseberry
GOOSEBERRY Ribes spp. Saxifragaceae Gooseberries are shrubs which grow best in cool climates with cold winters. American gooseberries have weeping stems and will root themselves where they touch the ground. The leaves are glossy and dark green, deeply lobed, and grow alternately along the stem. The stems are woody and carry thorns at each…
Read MoreFRONT AND CENTER: CLAIR LAMMERS
Chapter member Clair Lammers has been in touch with me a few times over the past two months and has written down some of the things he is testing in a very favorable microclimate close to Fairbanks. During the nine years he has kept records, it has yet to go below -32 F at his…
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