Seed Catalog

[TomK]

I get my seeds the last few years from heritage seeds in manitoba...its been great...only a few issues, and i think its been my doing.,especially with the brussels sprouts...JimW..did the. Strawberries this past year..will continue...awesome results...I've had incredible results especially with the gourds of all sorts and beans...omg!!...very pleased...but i love going thru the catalogs...and we put in some standard apple trees last year...more this spring....i have no use for the dwarfs...but thats just me...I'm a heritage type guy...

[Flat Rock Farm]

Your right BVF their test gardens are amazing!! Our Garden Club had a tour there in the Fall, at the end we had a buffet taste test of all the veggies with dip. I love going there in the Spring for their started veggies as well, everything always looks so healthy and robust.

[Home Grown Poultry]

I looked over all the sites and requested cataloged from all the mentioned sites above. Im after 6-8 fruit trees. we have 1 young plum, but Im thinking about adding the multi fruit bearing combination trees simply because fruit trees are super expensive. http://www.whiffletreefarmandnursery.ca ... s/2023.htm has a few different ones available, plum, asian pear, apple, and a fruit cocktail which is a peach, apricot, nectarine, plum and almond. So my thinking and hoping is these trees are grown in our harsh Canadian climate and all have great disease resistance qualities. Then when I have all these different varieties I will either grow or buy rootstock and graft these trees and spread them out all over the property.

Tom have you ever seen the http://www.treeof40fruit.com/ Now that is simply amazing!Heres more info with instructions on how to make one. http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nati ... /13887177/

[TomK]

Al..yes i saw that..its quite amazing...i find all that stuff interestIng to read about but im one of those if it works, dont screw with it types...so around here i'm sticking with the heritage stuff...some may take a little longer to mature but at least i know it will make it...at the moment im looking for a short course on proper fruit tree pruning...i have a few zillion apple trees here on the farm..quite large, lotta dead wood in the tops tyat im cleaning out, need to know what to cut of the live branches and what not...all sorts of old varieties...quite incredible really...

[Home Grown Poultry]

I hear ya! Thats really cool. We had a massive snow apple at the old place, it was such a nice tree. Ya I need to learn about proper pruning too. I used a hatchet and cleaned up every sucker on it that I could reach... there was alot, when we left it was full of nice apples waiting to be picked. I was just feeding them to the birds.

[TomK]

Yeah, the trees i have managed to clean up have had bumper yields...I'm looking forward to seeing what some of the others do when i get at them..its a daunting task but worth it i think...i found one tree with striped apples..realLy hoping that one improves...and i hope the pruning improves the size of the fruit...now, THAT would be awesome

[Flat Rock Farm]

Wow Al that tree is amazing!! Almost looks not real.

[Home Grown Poultry]

I dont think that pic is real but the tree is real.... I think this is like the "concept" cut n pasted together. This guy saved an old research orchard destined to be bulldozed... then decided to graft them all together on one tree and spread them around.

[JimW]

JimW, apple trees from a local nursery? Do tell! I need plum and cherry.
I love seed catalogs and pore over them religiously every year, even though I'm pretty much VERY well set up with my own saved seeds. Gotta check to see if there's something cool I want to try.

The place is Barkley's Apple Orchard outside of Morrisburg. I bought a couple apple trees and a crab apple a couple years ago, trees were good quality. I forgot to wrap the tree bottoms and rodents girdled the bark last winter. So I will hopefully buy a few more trees from them this spring and protect them.

They sent me a list of the types of trees they sell with a description of each type I might have it saved somewhere. Here is the list of trees they had in the past, they often advertise on kijiji.

Cherry
Montmorency, Stella

Plums
Italian, Reine Claude , Underwood

Pears
Clapp’s Favorite, Flemish Beauty

Apples
Cortland, Empire, Golden Russet, Ida Red, Liberty, Lobo, MacIntosh, Paula Red, Quinte, Spartan, Tolman Sweet, Vista Bella, Wealthy, Wolf River, Yellow Transparent



Man we have only had 1 wintery day, and I am already itching for spring.

[Syble]

This week I have been going through the seeds I have left from last year and making a list of what I need to order. I am ordering from William Dam, Verseys and Terra Edibles this year. Also plan on ordering some strawberry plants, and possibly raspberries.

Oh and potatoes from Eagle Creek and a couple heritage apple trees from a local nursery.

JimW

where you looking for strawberries jim? every where i;ve scanned so far is pretty pricey!