Hello Fellow Fruit Growers
 

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.

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Awesome! Great to have someone with such experience joining us and I welcome you! I am really jealous as well of all the good stuff you get to eat all year! haha

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Welcome! Good to see you here.

:woohoonaner:

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Welcome aboard, looking forward to seeing and hearing more of your garden and posts:woohoonaner:

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Hello and welcome! Great to have someone with that kind of expertise joining the site.

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Hello & Welcome :^)

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Great to have you with us passiflora123!!!

Welcome from Zone 8a, Central Texas!!

I have seen some honeysuckle in the side yard that has berries, wonder how I can ID them...?

:) ~Cheryl

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Wow...quite the collection from the sounds of it! Very glad to have ya around here. I hope you enjoy the site!

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Welcome!

What's your name?

And, I'd love to see some pictures of your yard!
:pics:

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Welcome aboard Passiflora123 from Florida!

We welcome your knowledge and experience! :2239:

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Welcome and Wow! I've never heard of some of the fruits you mentioned. Wish you can teach us how to prune fruit trees, such as pomegranate.

Rae
Georgia 7B

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Welcome from Tennessee.

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Welcome! I probably know you, but am left guessing without your name. I'm a lurking member of the SCV CRFG.

Harvey

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Welcome! I will be sure to subscribe to your posts as I know they will be very interesting. Good to have you on board!

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welcome from Fresno,California

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Welcome from NW Florida! You are now part of a great bunch of informative 'friends'.:lurk:
Beverly

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Welcome from Maryland, The Free State.

Free State. The nickname "Free State" was created by Hamilton Owens, editor of the Baltimore Sun. In 1923, Georgia Congressman William D. Upshaw, a firm supporter of Prohibition, denounced Maryland as a traitor to the Union for refusing to pass a State enforcement act. Mr. Owens thereupon wrote a mock-serious editorial entitled "The Maryland Free State," arguing that Maryland should secede from the Union rather than prohibit the sale of liquor. The irony in the editorial was subtle.

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Welcome from a fellow fruitophile! Feel free to ask us anything (well, almost anything) - you won't find a friendlier bunch of gardeners than us!