Apples
1) Apples grow very well in our area (Napa County). Choose varieties that are sold at local nurseries or look up the chill hours needed for the variety you want to grow and see if it is near the range for your yard. 500-800 ish
2) Don't bother growing apples from seed unless you have a lot of years and a lot of space and do not care if you get yummy apples from those trees. A grafted tree is a better choice if your goal is good tasting fruit in a short number of years.
3) Choose a variety that matches your plans. Making cider, cooking, eating out of hand, long storage, favorite, sweet, tart, balanced.....
4) Apples are very easy to graft. Collect scion in January and store in a closed zip bag in a low dark drawer of a refridgerator until it is time. It is time when the rootstock you are using is starting to grow or is in a growth period. Maybe this is March to June.
5) Try to participate in an apple tasting for a real eye opening education on how different apples taste! You may find a new favorite!
6) In our area, the worst pest is the apple moth. Remember that the beneficial insects are also harmed by some "organic" techniques.
7) There are over 6000 different varieties named and protected in New York.
2) Don't bother growing apples from seed unless you have a lot of years and a lot of space and do not care if you get yummy apples from those trees. A grafted tree is a better choice if your goal is good tasting fruit in a short number of years.
3) Choose a variety that matches your plans. Making cider, cooking, eating out of hand, long storage, favorite, sweet, tart, balanced.....
4) Apples are very easy to graft. Collect scion in January and store in a closed zip bag in a low dark drawer of a refridgerator until it is time. It is time when the rootstock you are using is starting to grow or is in a growth period. Maybe this is March to June.
5) Try to participate in an apple tasting for a real eye opening education on how different apples taste! You may find a new favorite!
6) In our area, the worst pest is the apple moth. Remember that the beneficial insects are also harmed by some "organic" techniques.
7) There are over 6000 different varieties named and protected in New York.
Pomegranates
1) Pomegranates are ripe in the fall.
2) They are mostly pest free in Napa.
3) They can be propagated by cuttings.
4) They produce fruit at a relatively young age, about 5.
5) They are easy to grow and do not require much water.
2) They are mostly pest free in Napa.
3) They can be propagated by cuttings.
4) They produce fruit at a relatively young age, about 5.
5) They are easy to grow and do not require much water.
Figs
1) There are many varieties of figs.
2) They are easy to grow in Napa with few problems.
3) They grow from cuttings.
4) Figs do not need a lot of water.
5) It is possible to keep them smaller with pruning.
6) They can be eaten fresh, dried, frozen and even b-b-qed.7) Figs produce fruit at a very young age.8) Figs can be anywhere between green on the outside to a very dark purple, almost black. On the inside the color can be anywhere from off white, to amber, to pink , to dark jammy red to almost pur
2) They are easy to grow in Napa with few problems.
3) They grow from cuttings.
4) Figs do not need a lot of water.
5) It is possible to keep them smaller with pruning.
6) They can be eaten fresh, dried, frozen and even b-b-qed.7) Figs produce fruit at a very young age.8) Figs can be anywhere between green on the outside to a very dark purple, almost black. On the inside the color can be anywhere from off white, to amber, to pink , to dark jammy red to almost pur
Lemons
1) Lemons are worth growing even though they need extra care.
2) Lemons do not like to be in weather much below freezing but there are strategies to help them get established and then they are less sensitive.
3) All the citruses need an acid soil and need to be fed often for green leaves and good fruit.
4) Slugs, snails and scale are the most common pests on citrus.
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2) Lemons do not like to be in weather much below freezing but there are strategies to help them get established and then they are less sensitive.
3) All the citruses need an acid soil and need to be fed often for green leaves and good fruit.
4) Slugs, snails and scale are the most common pests on citrus.
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