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MOFGApedia Editor on March 01, 2011
Each of us carries snapshot memories of important and somewhat random events from our lives. In one of my memories, for example, I’m 30 feet up in a tree that I have named the Three Sisters because of its three huge trunks rising from the same spot in the ground. I grafted each of its branches over nine or 10 years, and 18 varieties grow on the tree.
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Posted by
MOFGApedia Editor on March 01, 2010
Cornell University Berry Program archived webinars for berry farmers.
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According to Stella Otto, author of the award winning book the
Backyard Orchardist: A complete guide to growing fruit trees in the home garden, the secret to growing big fruits is to remember that less is more.
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Stella Otto, award winning author of the
Backyard Berry Book and the
Backyard Orchardist, shares these tips on picking and preserving backyard fruits to help you reap the full benefits of the harvest.
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Autumn olive
(Eleagnus umbellata) is an easy-to-grow berry bush that could provide a lot of free freezer berries for a lot of Mainers; that grows almost anywhere, with zero maintenance or care; and that fixes its own nitrogen and improves the soil.
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Legend has it that George Washington’s pruning skills sent his cherry tree to an untimely demise. The fruit trees in your garden don’t have to suffer a similar fate, if you heed the following timely tips.
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Yellow raspberries, lingonberries and gooseberries are delicious delicacies that are often difficult to find in stores. However, as interest in unusual fruit spreads, aficionados are discovering that growing these and other small fruit in their backyard gardens is very rewarding and enjoyable.
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As a child I knew where every ripening fruit and berry grew, and I watched for them to ripen, eating a lot of unripe fruit in anticipation. Other than peaches, mulberries were the center of my attention. Not content with waiting for the berries to drop, I learned to climb trees to get to the first ripe fruits.
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An 82-year-old inventor from Nashua, N.H., has designed a new blueberry rake. Lester Gidge, a mechanical engineer who holds more than 100 patents, was in Down East Maine a couple of years ago when he happened to watch workers raking blueberries in a barren.
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