by Greg Alder | Apr 27, 2018 | Fruit, Weather |
Are your deciduous fruit trees acting funny this spring too? Frightfully funny? Look at a couple of my trees today compared to this time last year, and then let’s explore why they’re behaving this way. Finally, is there anything to do about it? Bloom is a full month...
by Greg Alder | Feb 14, 2025 | Avocados |
It is courageous to make predictions in public, especially in writing. Most of us sit on the sidelines and criticize privately or just shrug our shoulders and say, “Who knows how things will go?” Not Gray Martin. During the 1980’s and 90’s, Gray worked as a botany...
by Greg Alder | Dec 29, 2023 | Fruit |
“I’ll be real blunt about this: I’m not a fan of the most common semi-dwarf rootstock that’s out there, Citation,” said Don Shor, owner of Redwood Barn Nursery. Don was speaking on the December 14 broadcast of the radio show he co-hosts, The Davis Garden Show....
by Greg Alder | Jul 21, 2023 | Misc |
A few years ago I built a nesting block for native bees. I was hoping to increase their numbers by giving them an attractive nesting site so that I could in turn receive their pollination of my vegetables and fruit trees. I additionally planted flowers. My efforts...
by Greg Alder | Jul 16, 2021 | Fruit |
Gave my neighbor some Snow Queen nectarines from our tree the other day and she sent me this text: “Greg, those nectarines were by far the most delicious things we have had in our entire life.” Now, my neighbor is really friendly, and maybe she just wanted to...
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