[Scpg] oh joy, another tree hugger list...

[eric werbalowsky]

here is some poop on SB Organic Garden Club, i guess
people from Carp and elsewhere would be welcome, as
long as you park your ratty car around the corner...

sign up thru yahoogroups

ew

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From:	"lbsaltzman" <lbsaltzman at aol.com>  View Contact
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Date:	Sun, 09 Jan 2005 22:07:10 -0000
Subject:	-SBOrgGdn- Garden Club Meeting


Happy New year!

* Our first garden club meeting of the year is going
to be a joint 
meeting with the California Rare Fruit Growers.  Their
membership has 

enormous expertise not only in rare fruits but in
pruning, grafting 
and general maintenance of fruit and nut trees.  The
meeting is 
scheduled 

for Saturday Feb 19 at our house from 10:00 A.M. to
12:00 P.M. 
approx. If it rains the event will be postponed to the
following 
Saturday.

RSVP to lbsaltzman at aol.com for address and directions.

* In May we will have one of the quarterly Backyard
Food Forest 
Events. details to be announced.

* We are still looking for venues and ideas for other
events. Please 
let us know if you know of any venues or have an
interest in 
arranging a 

club meeting with speaker.  Volunteer yourself if you
have an 
interesting talk you would like to give. E-mail
lbsaltzman at aol.com

* BUYER BEWARE! It is bareroot season and in looking
at bareroot 
trees around Santa Barbara I have seen nurseries
carrying very 
disappointing 

choices.  Some nurseries are selling trees that are
totally 
unsuitable for our area. I saw Comice pears that
require 600 hours of 
chill and 

other unhelpful choices.  Before buying a bareroot,
make sure that 
you look up the specific variety and know what you are
getting. Also 
make 

sure you know the suitability of the root stock.  The
best retail 
sources We have found are Bay Laurel Nursery in
Atascadero and Trees 
of 

Antiquity, also in the same general area.  Both places
have their 
catalogues on-line.  Bay Laurel stocks from Dave
Wilson Wholesale 
Nursery:

www.davewilson.com
www.baylaurelnursery.com
www.treesofantiquity.com

Locally, La Sumida Nursery stocks some trees from Dave
Wilson, the 
best wholesaler of trees, and as long as you are sure
that the root 
stock 

and chill requirements are good then these should be
good trees.