ping songbird: a theory to run by you

even if you can't eat the fruits, the wood is useful and of course any scraps you can get from anyone who cans apple sauce would be free organic matter. :) yeah, i like peanut butter and apple sauce on mine at times. don't eat them very often though.
Posted by songbird in Fruit and Vegetable Gardening 9 years ago 
Apple show near Chicago

My club, Midwest Fruit Explorers is putting on a show this weekend at the Morton Arboretum in Lisle Illinois (off of highway 88). Hours are 10am to 4:30pm on Oct 15 and Oct 16. Parking is $7, but our show is free, and you get to see the Arboretum, as well. We will have over 100 varieties of ...
Posted by sherwindu in Fruit and Vegetable Gardening 20 years ago 
Crab apple polination partner

I have a charles ross apple, and Im abou to plant some ornamental trees nearby and thought it might kill tw birds with one stone. Which leads me on to the second question as recomendations for a coupl of ornamental trees to provide a bit of a screen. Cheers E -- gasdoctor
Posted by gasdoctor in Fruit and Vegetable Gardening 20 years ago 
apple blossoms in October

I have two apple trees which were planted in my yard, one in front other in back, by a friend. They usually bloom about the same time in early spring, but in the two springs they have lived here, each has had only a few blossoms. Now it is October and they are coming out all over the place.
Posted by Mycosimian in Fruit and Vegetable Gardening 17 years ago 
Voles attacking apple tree?

I have four three-year-old apple trees, all planted on a north-facing slope in a valley in East Cornwall. I gave them all deep mulch (including old carpet), cleared the pervasive bracken away and erected seven-foot-high wire netting cages around each to ward off deer (I have seen roe deer ...
Posted by hellomabel in Fruit and Vegetable Gardening 14 years ago 
Plum and apple trees

While checking out the backyard for the area for this years garden I noticed my plum tree in full bloom, flowers almost everywhere, I planted the tree last year same with one apple. Now the question. Is it too late to prune off the non-flowering limbs?
Posted by wawwiz in Fruit and Vegetable Gardening 11 years ago 
Apple Tree: Laxton Superb

A customer of mine has been complaining that her apple tree, named in title above, has seen the fruit rotting on the branches before it usually reaches the harvesting stage and says her yield of good fruit has been waning for about the last three years and getting worse.
Posted by Terry Deans in Fruit and Vegetable Gardening 9 years ago 
Re: apple tree help

Here's a very good article on the coddling moth. While written in UC Davis, California, it discusses a number of items that can perhaps be implemented in your area. http://www.ipm.ucdavis.edu/PMG/PESTNOTES/pn7412.htmlNote the reference to trunk banding. The key here is not so much to deny the ...
Posted by Lawrence Akutagawa in Garden Forum 23 years ago 
Apple show near Chicago

My club, Midwest Fruit Explorers is putting on a show this weekend at the Morton Arboretum in Lisle Illinois (off of highway 88). Hours are 10am to 4:30pm on Oct 15 and Oct 16. Parking is $7, but our show is free, and you get to see the Arboretum, as well. We will have over 100 varieties of ...
Posted by sherwindu in Garden Forum 20 years ago 
Article on Apple Varieties

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/21/dining/21curi.html?em&ex=1195880400&en=11266e61cb834170&ei=5087%0A

Posted by Charles in Garden Forum 18 years ago