Our South Field Orchard in 2014
Almonds ... Books ... Links ... Magazines ... Red Bluff
Fruit and Nut Trees Planted at Our Home
Trees - Quotes, Links and References
Work - Quotes, Links and References
Our South Field Orchard in 2014
Almonds: The California Almond Board A quality site on one of our prime crops.
Almonds: Almond
Companies
Apples: Apple Index
Arid: Arid Zone Trees Gallery
California Farm Bureau Federation
California
Trees Excellent collection of detailed information about the trees of
California.
Discussion: Directory of
Gardening and Agricultural Mailing Lists An excellent and extensive
directory!!
Farms: Small Farm Center - University of
California at Davis
Figs: California Fig Advisory Board
Figs: NAFEX Fig Page. By Ray U. Givan
Figs: Rays Figs By
Ray U. Givan
Figs: Valley Fig Growers
Fruit and Nut Varieties.
University of California.
Fruit: alt.agriculture.fruit newsgroup
Fruit: California Rare Fruit Growers
Fruit: Digitalseed:
The Fruit Orchard
Fruit: Fruit Crops by Mark Rieger.
Facts, cultivation, folklore, botany. Excellent information.
Fruit: International Fruit Variety Database
Fruit: rec.gardens.edible newsgroup
Fruit: New York Fruit
Quarterly
Fruit: North American Fruit Explorers
Fruit: Scaffold's Fruit
Journal Pest Management and Crop Development. Cornell
University.
Fruit: UC Fruit and Nut Center
University of California. Outstanding links, articles, and resources.
Grapes: Wine Information on
the Internet by U.C. Davis
Nuts: UC Fruit and Nut Center
Nuts: Nut
Companies
Olives: Santa Barbara Olive Company
Olives: The Olive Connection
Orchard Varieties and Information.
University of California.
Real Estate - Farm and Ranch Net
Pecans: "The pecan (Carya illinoensis) is native to the
Americas and naturally distributed in the Mississippi Valley and the river valleys of
Texas. The Indians introduced pecans to the European man by trading for tools and
trinkets. In this way, the traders moved the pecan from its native range to the
eastern states. The first pecan nursery was established in 1772 and from this small
beginning, pecan production has grown into a multimillion dollar industry in Florida and
South Georgia."
- The Farm Store
Pruning: How to Prune Trees
Rice: Rice Web
Trees: Legends, Lore, Magick, Stories
Trees: Quotes, Links, References
Trees: Trees at Our Home in Red Bluff, California
Walnuts - Notes, Links, Quotes
Watering: Trickle or Drip Irrigation Mailing List. Address: listserv@vtvm1.cc.vt.edu.
Subject: SUBSCRIBE trickle-l your name
Watering: Water Wise Gardening
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Backyard Fruits and Berries: How to Grow them Better than Ever. By Diane E. Bilderback and Dorothy Hinshaw Patent. Emmaus, Pennsylvania, Rodale Press, 1984. Index, 306 pages. ISBN: 087857509X.
Fruits and Berries for the Home Garden. By Lewis
Hill. Drawings by Mary Azarian. Charlotte, Vermont, Garden Way Publishing,
1977. Index, 269 pages. ISBN: 088266168X.
Tree Nuts: Production, Processing and Products. By Jasper Guy Woodroof. Westport Conn., AVI Publishing Co., 1979. Index, 731 pages.
Trees - Quotes, Bibliography and Links
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Inventory of Fruit and Nut Trees and Vines at our home in Red Bluff.
Almond, Apple, Apricot, Blackberry, Cherry, Chestnut, Crabapple, Elderberry, Fig, Grape, Kiwi, Lemon, Loquat, Mulberry, Olive, Orange, Peach, Pear, Pecan, Persimmon, Plum, Pomegranate, and Walnut.
Despite Corning being a major producer of olives, it is nearly impossible to find an nice olive tree at a retail nursery. We keep looking. Suggestions. Maybe I can find cuttings .... hmmm.
Fruits and Nuts - Quotes and Links
Trees and
Orchards in the Red Bluff Area
Red Bluff, California, North America
Warning: This is a rough draft in progress. Please remember that these are my notebooks. I serve them on the Net as free information and links on a poplar topic, and to open the door to chatting with people from around the world about gardening, farming, backyard natural history, and lifestyles of mutual interest.
The many large orchards in our area primarily grow: almonds, olives, prunes, and walnuts.
The local Red Bluff newspaper, The Daily News, offers very good coverage of news and information on agriculture. Locals should read this first, clip good articles, and apply the useful information (e.g, watering).
California State University at Chico has an extensive collection of useful books and journals about fruit growing, orchard management, trees, vines, and related agricultural practices. The University Library is open to the public, and for a mere $50 a year one can obtain borrowing privileges. The University of California at Davis, of course, offers the premier collections on such subjects.
The Tehama County Public Library also has some useful books about orchard management, fruit trees and vines. The library is open to the public and borrowing privileges are free.
Observe, Read, Listen, Explore
The memories of the almond groves in full white blossom bubble up in my consciousness as I taste an almond seed.
Locals seem to prefer the pronunciation "ammonds." I asked my neighbor, CB, about this and he told me that in the ammond orchards at harvest time a big machine grabs the tree and shakes the ammond tree until the nuts fall to the ground. Apparently, the machine is so powerful that it shook the 'L (hell) out of the trees.
Almond - Prunus dulcis Facts, cultivation, history, folklore. By Mark Rieger. 17Kb
The California Almond Board A quality
site on one of our prime crops.
California Grown Nut Company, Hughson
Almonds: Myth, Lore,
Magick, Esoterica
Black Walnut Explorations. By Carlene Cooper. 19Kb.
California Walnut Marketing Board
Gothic Gardening: Walnut
Comments on the walnut tree's reputation as a sinister tree.
Plant Friends of the Black Walnut
The Walnut: History,
Nutrution, Folklore, Recipes. Vegetarians in Paradise.
39Kb.
Walnut - Juglans Facts, cultivation, history,
folklore. By Mark Rieger. 22Kb
Walnut Varieties from the
University of California
Walnuts: Myth, Lore,
Magick, Esoterica
Wonderful Walnuts, Wisdom and
Folklore 14Kb.
World Wide Walnut An outstanding site!!
"In the nut, nothing is lost, except perhaps the noise it makes
when breaking."
- World Wide Walnut
"Walnuts are recognized as the oldest known tree food, dating back to about 7,000
B.C.
In fact, walnuts are one of only a
handful of trees and plants that can be found growing
naturally in both the eastern and
western hemispheres - strong evidence that the trees
existed before the continents split
apart." - Walnut Information
for Students
"California with it's mild climate and deep fertile soils, provides ideal growing
conditions for
the California walnut, producing
98% of the total U.S. commercial crop and accounting for
2/3 of the worlds' trade. The
Franciscan Fathers are credited with
introducing Juglans regia
into California from Spain around the early 1800's."
The first commercial planting of
English or Persian walnts began in 1867 in
Goleta, and in 1937 in Stockton.
- California Walnut Designs
Olive - Olea europaea Facts, cultivation, history,
folklore. By Mark Rieger. 15Kb
Olive Pit,
Corning, California
Olives: Myth, Lore,
Magick, Esoterica
Two primary varieties of olives were planted in Corning, California in 1904 – the
Mission variety and Sevillanos
from the vicinity of Seville, Spain. Mission trees
soon bore the traditional small
fruit Much later, the Sevillanos started producing
the Queens – the
largest olives yet seen. Information from the Olive Pit in Corning.
Our South Field Orchard in 2014
Drip lines installed and checked for all trees in
January 2014
Orchard sprayed in January 2014
All tree trunks in orchard were painted white in January 2014
Middle Pond Orchard
1. Peach
2. Peach
3. Peach
4. Pear
5. Pear
6. Peach
7. Apricot
8. Peach
9. Pear
10. Peach
11. Plum
12. Peach or Plum
13. Fig
14. Fig
15. Fig
16. Fig
17. Plum
18. Nectarine
19. Peach
20. Apricot
21. Plum
22. Plum
Basketball Orchard
Row 1
1. Crab Apple
2. Apple
3. Plum
4. Plum
5. Peach
6. Apple
7. Apricot
8. Plum
9. Apple
10. Plum
11. Apple
12. Plum
Row 2
13. Peach
14. Fig
15. Peach
16. Fig
17. Apricot
18. Peach
19. Cherry
20. Nectarine
21. Peach
22. Apple
Row 3
23. Fig
24. Persimmon
25. Fantasia Nectarine
26. Gold Coast Apricot
27. White Peach Q18
28. Gold Kist Apricot
29. Cherry Dwarf
30. Black Mission Fig
31. Peter's Honey Fig
32. Red Walnut
Row 4
33. Red Walnut
34.
35.
36.
37.
38.
39.
40. Fig
41. Grape
42. Grape
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