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Garden Notes

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These are a few varieties that have worked well for our members.

Fruits

Apple Trees

Currants, Black

  Breakey   Slitsa
  Carrol   Swedish Black
  Duchess, Red

Pink Champagne Currants

  Hazen

White Currants

  Joyce

Haskap (Blue Honeysuckle)

  Lowland Raspberry   Blue Moon
  Norland   Blue Velvet
  Norlove   Cinderella
  State Fair   Kamchatka
  Yellow Transparent   Svetlana
  Zestar

Kiwi

Aronia

  Arctic Beauty

Cherries

  Frost
  Evans   September Sun
  Meteor   Victor
  Nanking

Gooseberries

  SK Carmine Jewel   Pixwell
  SK Crimson Passion   Poorman
  SureFire

Raspberries

Plums

  Anne
  Bounty   Boyne
  Opal   Fall Gold
  North American   Heritage

Blackberries

  Latham
  Doyle

Strawberries

Currants, Red

  Honeoyo
  Cherry Red   Sitka
  Red Lake  
  Rovada  
   

Roses

 
  Adelaide Hoodless   J. P. Connell
  Alexander MacKenzie   Jens Munk
  Austrian Copper   John Cabot
  Belle Poitevine   John Davis
  Betty Bland   Marie Bugnet
  Blanc Double de Coubert   Martin Frobisher
  Butterball   Mrs. George Bugnet
  Champlain   Mrs. John McNab
  Cuthbert Grant   Morden Centennial
  F.J. Grootendorst   Morden Ruby
  Haidee (Irwin's Rose)   Morden Snowbeauty
  Hansa   Rosa rugosa
  Harrison's Yellow   Snow Pavement
  Helen Bland   Therese Bugnet
  Henry Hudson   Wasagaming
  Henry Kelsey   White Altai
  Hope for Humanity   William Baffin

A few sources for roses include:
Trinity Greenhouses, 262-9242; Fritz Creek Gardens in Homer, AK; Washburn Farm Nursery in Palmer, AK, 745-3479; Chill Out! Roses in Eagle River; or on the internet High Country Roses located in Utah. Also Help Me Find Roses, Clematis and Peonies


Vegetable

 
Garlic

Bogatry, Bavarian Purple, Music, Siberian are favorites. Others that do well include Chesnock Red, and Metechi.

Rocambole type tends to be fussy. Porcelain are fairly robust, have big cloves but only have 2-4 cloves per head

Purple stripes are very robust.

Artichoke (soft neck) has many, many varieties and is a best keeper. Hot as robust as purple striped varieties.

These are a few places garlic bulbs can be purchased: Filaree Farm, Territorial, Johnny's, Nichols

     
Onions Cobra Onion Starts from Dixondale Farms  
Peas "Dual Peas" from R. H. Shumway