Western Washington Fruit Research Foundation

On April 20th from 9-noon come out to the Fruit Garden and help with pruning, looking for tent caterpillars and transplanting young trees.

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.

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.

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!

All members are welcome to attend the board meeting. We will meet on November 21 from 9 am to 3 pm in Seattle at Sue Williams’ home. Potluck lunch. For directions email info@wwfrf.org.

Due to the unusually warm weather this year the fruit is ripening early and we are moving the Apple and Pear Day up by 2 weeks.

Apple and Pear Day

Saturday, September 26^th

^{11:00am – 2:00 pm}

Sample apples and pears!

Sample ciders!

Jacky King teaches about cider

Registration begins at 10:30 am

11:00am                       Opening speeches, Fruit Garden information

11:00am – 1:00pm       Cider Tasting

11:15am                       Pruning Demo

11:15am                       Fruit Garden Tours (green vested volunteers)

12:00am – 2:00pm       Sampling Apple & Pear Varieties

Saturday, June 13th, 2015

This will be a chance to learn and get some hands on experience with thinning and putting footies on the developing apple fruit to deter apple maggot and coddling moth damage. The Board Meeting will take place at the same time and then we will have a combined potluck lunch with the workshop participants and then we will all help thin in the Fruit Garden.

10:30-12:30 WWFRF Board Meeting in Master Gardener’s Pavillion

10:00-10:30 Educational introduction to benefits of Thinning and applying Footies

10:30-12:30 Thinning & Footies in Fruit Garden

12:30-1:30 Combined potluck Participants & Board in Fruit Garden

1:30-3:30 Thinning & Footies in Fruit Garden

Don’t forget to bring something for the potluck lunch!

Susan Dolan is ill and will not be able to speak at the Winter Field Day, so her is an updated schedule.

Revised Winter Field Day Schedule

Scionwood and rootstocks

Join us at our annual Winter Field Day on Saturday, March 7, 2015! We’ll have rootstock and scion wood sales, workshops on pruning and grafting, and Fruit Garden demonstrations on pruning. We hope to see you there!