Sep 7, 2010
The recently redesigned UC ANR backyard orchard website is easy to navigate and chock-full of useful science-based information. Fruit trees in the home or community gardens are a wonderful way to improve food security and nutrition.
The website is designed to help gardeners from site planning through postharvest. Topics include:
- Site considerations
- Tree selection
- Propagation
- Preparation & planting
- First year care
- Irrigation
- Pollination
- Pruning & training
- Fertilization
- Fruit thinning
- Pests & disease
- Harvest & postharvest
The Ventura County Master Gardeners are also available to answer your home orchard questions from 1-4 pm on Tuesdays and Thursdays. They can be reached by phone at 645-1455 or at mgventura@ucdavis.edu.
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