Introducing myself to Scott's forum

ltilton · October 15, 2020, 11:35am

Welcome new growers!

majtnkr · October 26, 2020, 11:41am

Hi Dennis - Welcome from the Piedmont!!

Brian

JesseinMaine · October 26, 2020, 3:51pm

I got locked out of my old account (JesseS) due to changing devices and misremembering my password, I’m back!

DennisL · October 27, 2020, 1:02am

Welcome George. When I lived in Olympia I got lots of plants and great advice from Burnt Ridge Nursery in Onalaska, WA. There’s a gigantic chinese chestnut near Ralph’s on the eastside that’s probably dropping nuts right now. Start some trees from those chestnuts!

DennisL · October 27, 2020, 1:07am

Hi Brian. Thanks. Have you heard of Feralwood nursery in Cleveland County?

BlueBerry · October 27, 2020, 1:46am

I haven’t…but it’s been 4 years since I’ve been in Cleveland Co (KingsMtn/Shelby).
Is it a good one? The “Growing Concern” in Hendersonville is pretty good.

GeorgeOlyWA-8a · October 27, 2020, 3:04am

Thanks for that suggestion Dennis. I’ll go check it out. Just curious if you ever happened upon the grove of Italian plums at Millersylvania? Must have been planted by the conservation corps… I’m hoping to find a twig to bring home some day. Hope they let me.

DennisL · October 27, 2020, 12:41pm

I didn’t run into that italian plum stand. I do know about an abandoned hazelnut orchard near the eastside co-op. Huge 20’ tall plants with lots of nuts (may be too late for nuts now). If I can remember all the spots, I’ll send you maps of where to find figs, blueberries, hazelnuts, apples, and thimble berries. There’s “olympia” varieties of figs and blueberries for a reason!

jcguarneri · October 27, 2020, 3:40pm

I was wondering where you went! Welcome back. You weren’t able to do a password reset?

Quill · October 27, 2020, 10:59pm

Welcome to the Pacific Northwest George, I’m about 50 miles NE of you in Burien.

Speaking of Burnt Ridge, I remember Michael saying they do the farmer’s market in Olympia. They always sold items at the yearly Seattle Tilth sale too.

GeorgeOlyWA-8a · October 30, 2020, 5:42am

Thanks for the welcome Quill. I’ve got to get out to the nurseries more. I’ve been down to Portland for the Bamboo Garden, which is amazing, but not to Burnt Ridge or Raintree yet. There is now even a Carniverous nursery in Rochester and a tree place in SeaTac (www.restoringeden.co). Lots to check out.

GeorgeOlyWA-8a · October 30, 2020, 6:31am

Thanks, that would be so awesome. Like a treasure map.

That makes me wonder if this forum has a thread for traveling grafters, maps for various cities across the country for hidden tree gems. Kinda like geo-caching for fruit!

SamF · November 21, 2020, 3:47am

Hi all,
Finally got around to signing on after being a long time reader and proudly amateur fruit and garden nerd. I’m on the far north coast of California, meaning cool, foggy summers and damp winters. I’m fortunate to have a small slice of south facing land tucked behind a low hill offering some protection from the prevailing cool NW winds coming ashore. Have a medley of fruits, berries and garden goodies. Novice grafter and excited to take my half dozen new apple grafts on G890 into their first winter to add to the small apple herd. Always looking to add a new pear variety (or three) to the existing trees (while trying to resist the urge for new trees altogether - futile so far). Great year for Bosc and Comice here and continue to pull some out of the chill for ripening and fresh eating, some of the other pears just coming into bearing this year and hopefully more next year. I enjoy winter pruning and training just as much as the eating. Anyhow, I’ve gained a lot of super helpful info from the community here and look forward to participating, learning and contributing as best I can.

mamuang · November 21, 2020, 11:19am

Welcome,Sam. We have a lot of folks here from various part of CA.

Ginda · November 21, 2020, 3:51pm

Hi, I joined this forum way back when, but at the time there wasn’t much content and I was turned off by the interface. I’m back, and see that there’s now lots of content, and other forums have forced me to learn the interface. So Hi!. I’m going to ask the administrator to change my user name to my real name, and some of you might remember me from NAFEX.

JCT · November 21, 2020, 4:05pm

Welcome! My parents are up in Oregon and we visited the one summer and stayed at the beach. Brrr it was still sweatshirt weather in July!

JCT · November 21, 2020, 4:06pm

Welcome back!

Ginda · November 21, 2020, 4:08pm

Thanks! I’m happy to return. What with pandemic boredom, you may see a lot of me.

SMC_zone6 · November 23, 2020, 1:52pm

Hi from one eastern Mass grower to another.

Ginda · November 23, 2020, 1:54pm

Hi back!

Huh, I didn’t know you could grow persimmons around here. (I have to admit, I don’t much care for persimmons, but it’s a pretty plant.)