passiflora123
12-13-2009, 02:55 PM
I have been growing fruit for 29 years and eat it 12 months of the year with Owari Satsumas in January, Pinkerton and Jim Bacon avos in winter - spring along with Bears limes Oct.- March, bleuberries May, June, July and Sept., peaches and nectarines in summer, Goldensweet and Blenheim apricots and pluots summer, 5 varieties of apples July - Nov., bananas in containers, pomegranate form Wolfskill and huckleberries, Chilean guava, white sapote, 14 citrus, blueberries I've been growing for 20 years, raspberries - Autumn Bliss, Tulameen (my favorite), etc., Asian pears, Warren, Bartlett and Comice pear, grapes, black Persian mulberry, persimmon, paw paws and some other stuff.
I helped develop and now help manage a planting of lesser known fruit plants at Emma Prusch Park in San Jose, California in our International Fruit Orchard. There we grow neat stuff like Cornus mas - red and yellow fruiting dogwoods, Jaboticaba, Haskop (blue fruiting honeysuckle), jujubes, quince, seaberries, Aronia and 93 other fruits.
I am stepping down from chairing the Santa Clara Valley California Rare Fruit Growers chapter as my term is over. Started the Master Gardener Program in Santa Clara County in 1982 - and ran it til 2004 which was a great joy.
I now am a graden consultant and professional fruit tree pruner.
I am a genuine fruitophile to the core.
I helped develop and now help manage a planting of lesser known fruit plants at Emma Prusch Park in San Jose, California in our International Fruit Orchard. There we grow neat stuff like Cornus mas - red and yellow fruiting dogwoods, Jaboticaba, Haskop (blue fruiting honeysuckle), jujubes, quince, seaberries, Aronia and 93 other fruits.
I am stepping down from chairing the Santa Clara Valley California Rare Fruit Growers chapter as my term is over. Started the Master Gardener Program in Santa Clara County in 1982 - and ran it til 2004 which was a great joy.
I now am a graden consultant and professional fruit tree pruner.
I am a genuine fruitophile to the core.