Bring your pruners and come to learn about the winter pruning of Kiwis on January 14th, 2016 in the Fruit Garden. More information…
Kiwibob is coming for Winter Pruning of Kiwi Workshop
Check your Kiwis for AYLS!
In preparation for the coming workshop on kiwi pruning, please check your kiwis for AYLS, a condition or disease which causes yellow blotches on leaves. See Kiwibob’s AYLS web page for more information and photos.
I checked my kiwi’s here in Arlington, and sure enough, I found some leaves with the typical yellow blotches. You have to check carefully because there may only be a few leaves showing the blotches now, but more will show up later in the season. Be sure to check the older leaves on the underside of the plant. If you find any please report on the AYLS page above.
Summer Workshop in 10 days!
Saturday, July 16th. Registration begins at 10:10 am, pruning demo starts at 10:30 am in our Fruit Garden, at 16650 State Route 536, Mount Vernon.
The kiwis are waiting for Kiwibob to come and give them a much needed training session. Followed by a talk on figs, and a demonstration of summer pruning of apple trees and bud grafting.
This Thursday in the Fruit Garden
Come help out in the Fruit Garden!
By Tom Wake
We have a very large fruit set so we Fruit Garden volunteers will continue thinning this Thursday from 9 am to noon. The honey berries are turning blue so it is time to net them. We can also pick some after noon. We are still on the lookout for damaged trees, insects, and disease.
Kiwi pruning and fruit sampling July 16, 2016
Bob Glanzman, also known as Kiwibob, will be demonstrating the summer pruning of hardy kiwis, and also talking about growing figs here in the PNW in the Fruit Garden on Saturday, July 16th, beginning at 10:30 am.
Following Bob’s workshop we will be sampling some fruit in the Garden, and then Bill Davis will demonstrate summer pruning of apple trees, followed by a demonstration of bud grafting.
Cost $15 Free to WWFRF members
Schedule
10:15 Registration
10:30-11:30 Kiwi and fig workshop
11:30-12:15 Fruit Sampling
12:15-1:15 Summer pruning of apple trees and bud grafting demonstration
Come help in the Fruit Garden this week!
On May 5th from 9 am to noon we will finish thinning the pears and we will start thinning the apples. There are a number of trees in the nursery that will be planted. We will continue to look for disease and tent caterpillars.
Volunteer in the Fruit Garden April 20th
On April 20th from 9-noon come out to the Fruit Garden and help with pruning, looking for tent caterpillars and transplanting young trees.
Blueberry Mulch
The Fruit Garden volunteers have recently finished putting a layer of biodegradable mulch covered with several inches of sawdust on the blueberry beds. This should not only help suppress weeds, but it should help suppress the mummyberry apotheca (mushrooms) and reduce mummyberry infection.
March 5th Winter Field Day schedule change
The 1:30 – 2:20 pm demonstration of Pruning Freestanding Cherry Trees, which takes place in the Fruit Garden and which was originally to be done by Dr. Bob Norton, will now be done by Bob Baines.
Winter Field Day coming March 5th, 2016!
Join us at our annual Winter Field Day on Saturday, March 5, 2016! We’ll have rootstock and scion wood sales, workshops on pruning and grafting, and Fruit Garden demonstration on pruning UFU cherries and slender spindle apples by Tom Thornton of Cloud Mountain farm! We hope to see you there!