How to plant a clonal avocado tree with Sam Garibay and Consuelo Fernandez of Brokaw Nursery
As part of the California Avocado Society's June 2024 seminar at Jackson Ranch in Valley Center, San Diego County, Sam Garibay and Consuelo Fernandez demonstrated how to plant an avocado tree, specifically a tree on a clonal rootstock. (What's a clonal rootstock? See...
Jaime Serrato talks about growing GEM avocado trees
Jaime Serrato has managed thousands of acres of avocados around San Diego County over the course of his career. His perspective holds weight; numerous avocado growers whom I hold in high regard always speak of Jaime with respect. As part of the California Avocado...
List of Yard Posts
Here I have them listed and categorized. Each title is a link. Thank you for your support . . . so that The Yard Posts are all food gardening and zero ads. Fruit Trees, general: Transplanting fruit trees in Southern California Don't prune apricots, cherries, and...
Interview with John Schoustra
John Schoustra's experience growing plants is broad. Just his current ventures look like this: he operates Greenwood Daylily Gardens alongside his wife, growing and breeding daylillies, irises, and more; he is the Orchard Manager of Apricot Lane Farms, overseeing an...
Pink Lemonade blueberry bush: a profile
A pink blueberry is like a pink orange: it’s a gimmick, but it works. I grow a Cara Cara orange tree and I grow a Pink Lemonade blueberry bush because they taste as good as their traditional counterparts, plus they dazzle the eyes. But should you grow a Pink Lemonade...
Feral avocado tree in San Juan Capistrano
Avocado trees are not supposed to be able to grow on their own in Southern California. Here our rainfall is far less, and our rainfall pattern is completely opposite, compared to where avocados grow wild. In most of Southern California, we average 10-16 inches of rain...
Fruit tree pest management ideas worth trying
Last night I spoke with the Orange County chapter of the California Rare Fruit Growers about dealing with pests of fruit trees, and they contributed so many ideas worth trying that I have to share a few. Squirrels Someone showed me a method that her husband developed...
Pomegranate flowers
I’ve got pomegranate trees that produce reliably, but I know others who don't and I want to help them. So this spring I’m learning more about pomegranate flowers and tree fruitfulness. Join me. Pomegranate flowers, from start to finish This week, on one of my trees I...
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