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September 12th, 2004 · No Comments
My mother and I have just done our fall pear canning, something we have done longer than I can remember, and I’m sure many other families in that house have done over the hundred years or so of the tree’s life. I played under its branches as a toddler and climbed in it when in grade school.
It is an early form of Bartlett I think (Did you know there are many different similar forms of most common fruit tree varieties? Tweaked to various climates & markets across the country by breeders & finders of sports.)-though it does not keep for more than about a week off the tree because the fruit is so sweet and totally …
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The link to the Hort. conference in Idaho is dysfunctional now. Fitting for a state that schedules its Nursery Association conference in January every year. Would you drive nearly 500 miles over icy mountain roads to sit in meetings for a week? Neither would I. Luckily, there was a nice sustainable ag conference much nearer last week, when the roads were much safer. This one was in Creston, BC Canada, just over the line from here. Take a look at the specs and the speakers. This was targeted at growers & marketers and good for a first time effort. They also have a great summer gardening event each year, full of …
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The second annual Thaw ‘n Awe horticultural symposium will take place March 13th in Twin Falls. Speakers include the internationally known Panayoti Kelaidis, who will be speaking about “sun daisies, hardy gazanias and manzanitas that survive 50 degrees below zero,” among other topics. Other speakers will discuss plants native to Idaho, creativity in garden design, and iris breeding. Get your thirty bucks to them by March 1st. Sounds like you won’t regret it.
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February 3rd, 2004 · 1 Comment
In my snail mail today I received a brochure about “a weekend of seminars and workshops specially designed for gardeners in the North Country” on April 23-25. Presenters include Steve Silk (contributing editor at Fine Gardening), Gordon Hayward (author of several excellent garden books), Stephanie Cohen, and Todd Meir (executive editor of Fine Gardening). While I am familiar with and greatly respect the presenters, I am just a teensy bit suspicious of the content, because the titles of their workshops are the same as the workshops they are giving at other Fine Gardening seminars in other parts of the country. Gordon lives in Vermont, and Todd and Steve live in Connecticut, so they might …
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