Upcoming Classes on Fruit
Fruit Tree Care Classes – Winter 2010
City Fruit offers a series of fruit tree care classes starting in
January2010.
Register at Brown Paper Tickets (links from www.cityfruit.org) or send
a check with
the name of the class and your contact information to City Fruit, PO
Box 28577,Seattle 98118.
After registering, you will receive confirmation and the address of the
class.
If you can’t afford a class but really want to learn, email us at
info@cityfruit.org.
The Phinney Neighborhood Association serves as City Fruit’s fiscal
sponsor and is
the co-sponsor of these events.
~Feb 6 Fruit Varieties for the Pacific NW . 1 – 3 pm. UW Botanic
Gardens. $20/$15 (members).
Sam Benowitz is the owner of Raintree Nursery, a nursery specializing
in fruit trees
and other edibles. Whether it’s plums, apples, pears, or berries, Sam
knows what varieties
do best in any particular situation. He will discuss the best fruits
for the
Northwest, why rootstocks are important, and how to determine how big a
tree will grow.
~Feb 20 The Art of Espalier. 1 – 4:30 pm. UW Botanic Gardens.
$30/$25 (members). Dave Conners, former president of the Seattle Tree
Fruit Society,
has been training 18 different antique apple varieties on his
city-sized lot for more than a
decade and has been teaching “The Art of Espalier” at the UW’s Center
for Urban horticulture for many years.
~Mar 6 Pruning Grape Vines 9 am – noon.
Phinney Neighborhood Association and neighboring site with grape vines.
$20/$15(members). Learn to prune and train grape vines and get tips on
growing
grapes for best production. Larry Davis is a Master Gardener and
teaches grape and other fruit production
classes for the WSU-King County Master Gardener program. Mar 20
Planting and
Caring for Young Fruit Trees 10 am – noon. Orca School Environmental
Learning Center. $20/$15 (members). Find out how and where to plant
your new fruit tree and
how to keep it healthy. John Reardon, vice president of the Seattle
Tree Fruit Society, teaches tree care classes
for Plant Amnesty, Seattle Tree Fruit Society and City Fruit.
Fruit tree care classes are also offered by the following organizations.
See the City Fruit Calendar at www.cityfruit.org, or their websites for
details.
Community Harvest of Southwest Seattle, Friends of Piper’s Orchard,
Seattle Tilth Seattle Tree Fruit
Society, Western Washington Fruit Research Foundation.
