Posts Tagged ‘orchard tour’
The Road to Hana
By Tami Schlies I missed the October meeting this year, but with good reason: I was in Hawaii with my family, basking in surf and sun. No, I am not writing this to rub it in, but to share with you my sense of the vegetation and especially the fruit. Our first island was Maui,…
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 MoreHood River Tour
by TAMI SCHLIES It rained hard all the way up the Gorge from Portland, Oregon, and I was sure we were going to get soaked. But as we neared the Hood River exit, the clouds began to shred with the wind, and by the time we reached our first orchard – Pearl’s Place, the…
Read More1998 ORCHARD TOURS
—Kevin Irvin This past summer was the first year (since I’ve been in the Fruit Growers anyway) that we had a tour every month. In May we toured the Mystery Trees in Anchorage as well as making stops at Bob Boyer’s and Tom Marshall s to see then trees. Anyone who hasn’t seen…
Read MoreANOTHER VISIT TO THE WHITEHORSE GARDENS
At the end of June, I made a very quick visit to the Whitehorse Botanical Garden. I did not have an opportunity to visit with the owners, but made some quick notes between drenching cloudbursts on the status of the fruit crops growing in their raised beds. The plants were poorly labeled, so I’m…
Read MoreYUKON GARDENS
I visited Yukon Gardens in Whitehorse, YT this past summer, and I would recommend it to anyone who happens to be in that area. Yukon Gardens has a significant planting of fruit trees including apples, cherries, plums and pears. The trees are planted in a large L-shaped raised bed facing south and west, backed by…
Read MoreVISIT TO ST. LAWRENCE NURSERIES
On Nov 20-21, 1989 I visited St. Lawrence Nurseries near Potsdam New York. Bill and Diana MacKentley own and operate the nursery. We discussed problems related to propagation of nursery stock. He had an unusually large number of failures in grafting new trees of Nova’ pear onto Pyrus communis rootstocks from Lawyer Nursery this past…
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