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| September 2010 | 7.10 MB | A grafter feels indescribable elation when, after several weeks, the scion or budwood is green
and healthy, and seems to have bonded with the rootstock. This is not the time, however, to
drop your guard. The bond at this stage is tenuous, and could die | Download |
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| August 2010 | 7.13 MB | MRFC and our Tree Sale Volunteers from Future Farmers of America gathered on Sunday, June 27,
2010 at Palma Sola Botanical Park in Bradenton to celebrate the great success of our may Tree Sale,
and especially to acknowledge the role our volunteers playe | Download |
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| July 2010 | 7.51 MB | I have been grafting for over 35 years - no beginner, but still very much an amateur. One of my ongoing frustrations is 100% failure at grafting annonas (sugar apples, atemoyas, etc). Last year, my friend Wayne Clifton gave me one of his prized cherimoya | Download |
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| June 2010 | 1.00 MB | The Tree Sale is over for another year, and once again, our gross sales have set a new record. On May 16th, we
had gross sales in excess of $67,000, handily topping last year's record sales of $55,000. This is good news, not
only for our club | Download |
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| May 2010 | 9.64 MB | Carambolas were introduced in Florida over 100 years ago. As tropical tree’s go the carambola is considered a small tree, it will grow to a height of 20 or 30 feet. The first fruit introduced into Florida were tart. Sweeter types have since been introduce | Download |
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| April 2010 | 9.94 MB | You don't hear that said very often nowadays, but the work IFAS is doing on the exotic laurel wilt disease that threatens our avocado trees is worth its weight in gold. | Download |
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| March 2010 | 9.40 MB | What I Do After the Freeze
Most of us sit and wonder what to do after the freeze. I will list my theories and what I do. I know each of you have your own ideas and practices. | Download |
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| January 2010 | 3.38 MB | Just picture removing 90 percent of a plant's roots and then trying to obtain a good yield from
that plant. In effect, that is what a plant without mycorrhizae on its roots is up against. | Download |
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| February 2010 | 9.83 MB | Here's what happened to my place from the endless freezes. This weather qualifies as the longest
duration of cold weather I've seen in a Florida lifetime. The freezes of the eighties still hold the title for
lowest temperatures (eighteen degrees in Punt | Download |
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| January 2009 | 7.22 MB | Winter is in full swing, whats growing in our yards, and much more... | Download |
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| February 2009 | 8.51 MB | Now that we have the Fruit Tree Exhibit at Palma Sola up and running | Download |
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| March 2009 | 5.95 MB | Laurel wilt disease, caused by a fungus transmitted by the invasive Redbay ambrosia beetle | Download |
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| April 2009 | 3.03 MB | Our visit to the Arboretum began and ended with a mandatory decontamination misting to
prevent possibly bringing citrus pathogens in or out. | Download |
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| May 2009 | 6.66 MB | If this is not enough we are also planning a trip to the Tropical Tree Research and Education
Center (TREC) in Homestead with a tentative date of August 15th. | Download |
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| June 2009 | 6.35 MB | The speaker for May was Chris Rawlings from the Fruit and Spice Park in Homestead. Chris
spoke about some not so famous fruiting plants. | Download |
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| July 2009 | 9.54 MB | One of the most effective things that can be done in a garden or farm is to use a living mulch. | Download |
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| August 2009 | 7.22 MB | Any experienced grower can recognize great soil. It has a loose structure something like potting soil, a darker
color that indicates good amounts of humic matter, and an "earthy" sort of aroma. | Download |
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| September 2009 | 6.13 MB | Laurel Wilt Disease Confirmed on Avocado Sample from Homestead | Download |
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| October 2009 | 8.33 MB | For organic farmers, this is the time to look carefully at their input costs and crop yields, and consider
strategies for squeezing the most out of their valuable improved soils. | Download |
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| November 2009 | 6.46 MB | The picture on the left is a mulberry tree of an old variety that I found near an avocado grove I owned in
Dade County in the 1970s. The fruit was tasty, but small and not very interesting. It was grown from a
cutting. I had decided long ago to eliminat | Download |
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| December 2009 | 6.62 MB | I knew it was going to be a mistake before I ate it. But it was a very appealing-looking slice of tomato on
the plate at the restaurant - perfect shape, nice attractive red color. It looked much like those beautiful
photos in glossy seed catalogs. So I | Download |
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| September 2010 | 3.38 MB | A grafter feels indescribable elation when, after several weeks, the scion or budwood is green
and healthy, and seems to have bonded with the rootstock. This is not the time, however, to
drop your guard. The bond at this stage is tenuous, and could die | Download |