[Scpg] Free class on "Choosing the Right Fruit Trees for your Garden" Sat Dec 1, 10-12

[LBUZZELL at aol.com]

SANTA  BARBARA  ORGANIC GARDEN CLUB PRESENTS FREE TALK ON “CHOOSING THE RIGHT 
FRUIT TREES FOR  YOUR GARDEN!” SATURDAY, DEC 1, 10 am – 12  noon. 
Just in time for bare root season (January and  February), this class helps 
you choose the right variety for your South Coast garden.  Fruit trees have it  
all: beautiful spring flowers, delicious fruit, colorful fall leaves and a  
beautiful winter structure. So why plant a mere "ornamental" when you can enjoy 
 a tree that gives you so much more in return for the water and care?

In  the winter most deciduous fruit trees are sold as bare root trees. Buying 
fruit  trees at this time is economical and easy. It is the best way to put 
in  apples, pears, stone fruit (peaches, nectarines, apricots, plums etc.),  
figs, pomegranates, and nut trees.  The class will cover how to select the  
appropriate trees for Santa Barbara, and how to plant them.  You will learn all 
the  characteristics of fruit trees so that you can select an appropriate tree 
for  our climate and for your garden.  Winter chill requirements, tree size, 
and  planting techniques will be discussed. 
Larry Saltzman, co-founder of the Santa Barbara Organic  Garden Club and a 
graduate of the Permaculture Design Course, will teach this  class.  Larry and 
his wife Linda have a 1/3 acre backyard food forest with  over 75 fruit trees 
and the class will be held in this unique Santa  Barbara  garden. 
The Santa Barbara Organic Club had its first meeting on July 12, 2000 and 
presents local events and  activities on topics of interest to gardeners weaning 
themselves from chemical  pesticides, herbicides and fertilizers.

For more information call: (805)  451-4168, (805) 563-2089 or e-mail 
_lbsaltzman at aol.com_ (mailto:lbsaltzman at aol.com)  






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