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Growing Fruits
and Vegetables.(No data behind this link, yet)
To be happy for a day, get drunk.
To be happy for a week, get married (to the wrong person). To be happy
for a life time, plant a garden.
Other fruit and
vegetable growing links:
This is the front-end to a database tool.
It was written and is supported by the United States Department of Agriculture.
They do first class work. Just for grins, try typing (or cut and paste)
Devoe into the cultivar name window. Then hit search. Click on
observations. Scroll down to "quality", Hit the number
8 and see what happens. Another cool thing is to hit the Latin
name of the fruit or vegetable and then sort by country. The country is
not the country where the cultivar originated, but the source of the propagating
material obtained by the Dept of Agriculture. Still, it is pretty cool.
US Agricultural Research Station Cultivar
search tool
Lon is a pretty cool guy. He has been very generous with advice and
plant materials in the past. Lon's specialty is grapes. But Lon also has
a more-than-passing-interest in less grown fruits. These less grown fruits
often offer superb disease resistance but are very tough to sell to the
general public. Lon specialized in propagation materials (cuttings, scion,
expertise) and has very few plants on hand for sale.
Lon Rombough's Home page. Grapes,
exotic fruit and easy-to-grow natives
Michael McConkey runs a "boutique" nursery in Virginia. I
do not know Michael but I have bought plants from him. Most of them are
on their own roots. My plants were small but grew well. Michael has species
and cultivars that are hard to come by. Examples include Illinois Everbearing
Mulberry and Asian Persimmons.
Michael McConkey's Edible Landscaping.
Easy-care natives. Own rooted plants.
The Adair family runs a nursery in Moulton, Alabama. The lower South
is a tough place to grow fruit trees. Only a few cultivars (varieties)
do realy well there. You could spend a lot of money trying to find them on your own. Interestingly, they offer a selection of "deer"
apples. Landscaping for wildlife is another of my interests.
Classical Fruits
A couple of other nurseries
Good place to buy "common" fruit
trees
Good place to buy grape vines
Cook's Gardens is a seed catalog that specializes in the kinds of vegetables
you would encounter in a "white table-cloth" restaurant.
Cook's Gardens. Home of vegetables
that taste good. Short season.
Countless dollars are thrown into holes and lost. Plant mortality is
mostly due to drying out and the predation of rabbits, mice and deer.
These tree tubes address all these causes. Think of them as a $3 insurance
policy for that $20 tree.
Tree
Pro tree tubes. Increase survival rate of transplanted trees.
So, what are you going to do with all that fruit???? Sure you can cellar
some of it, freeze some of it, can some of it. At some point, you are
going to think of juicing and fermenting.One nice thing about liquids,
they are easy to handle and store. I have been using 20 ounce pop-bottles
with screw tops. Not very fancy but they work fine.
Champagne yeasts are good choices for beginners. Champagne yeast is easy
to come by and vigorous, forgiving fermenters. The ciders/wines tends to be of neutral flavor.
The more adventurous can try Redstar Cote Des Blancs (enhances fruitiness, especially at 65F-to-70F fermentation temperatures), Danstar Windsor (an ale yeast) or Lalvin D-47(enhances mouth feel). Or make individual batches and blend them to your preference.
Andrew Lea's Homepage, the very
best site regarding cider
Bluestone Cellars, most cost effective source of fermentation supplies.
Redstar wine yeast.
Lalvin wine yeast.
More information from a supplier of yeast
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