California Rare Fruit Growers CRFG Inland Empire Chapter

This is a white sapote. It had four main branches growing tall straight up to the sky. So looked up pruning techniques. One place suggested bending over the tall branches rather than pruning them short. So that's what I'm trying. Some of these branches are rather stout so this probably should have been tried a few months ago but I will pull them over a little bit more every few days. I can pull the tapes a little tighter every few days . Meanwhile I think I need to whitewash where the branches are arched over cuz they will now get a lot more sunlight. We will see how it goes.

Several rootstock sprouts on the apple trees in the apple orchard at JMDC. They want to expand the parking lot into this area so we are trying to rescue and relocate trees, or at least get rootstock started from them, and take scion wood.

All kinds of fruit developing on the Barbados cherry (aka Acerola) in our demo orchard. First time it's had fruit.

I'm going to try this.

Espalier Tomatoes - The Only Way I'll Ever Grow Tomatoes Again How it started, how it's going. It appears we can thank the French for taking the headache out of growing indeterminate tomatoes. I’ve expressed my annoyance with their annual habit of taking over…

Mark you calendars: The California Rare Fruit Growers CRFG Inland Empire Chapter will hold a free grafting lecture 🍒🥝and a scion exchange at the LandUse Learning Center on Feb. 7.

Using fig leaves in cooking.

An unexpectedly sweet use for fig leaves In Dandelion & Quince, author Michelle McKenzie explores the uses of some non-standard herbs, fruits, and vegetables. Here, she tells The Splendid Table's Noelle Carter about her tomatillo-inspired green fish stew and the unexpectedly sweet use she's found for fig leaves.

There is a 10 acre fire on west edge of Jurupa Mtns Discovery Center. We can't have our meeting there tonight. We are meeting instead at Dennys. 6875 Valley Way, Rubidoux, CA 92509. It's air conditioned. If you can order food, that will be helpful, but not necessary.

--Christine Lampe
CRFG Inland Empire newsletter Editor

From: Elisabeth Lassanyi
Communications Chair
Foothill Chapter, California Rare Fruit Growers - San Joaquin Chapter

In case you haven't already heard, there's a new (to us) fungal disease of citrus (Citrus and Fortunella) in Southern California. We now have quarantine zones to prevent the spread of sweet orange scab.

If you are in one of these many zones, not only can't you move plants or plant parts, but you can't move fruit, either. Only seeds. Please keep this in mind when you plan tasting tables or if you are thinking of sharing fruit at work or with friends, as your trees may be in a quarantine zone.

For further reading, pictures, and maps of the quarantine zones:

https://www.cdfa.ca.gov/citrus/pests_diseases/sos/regulation.html
[From Christine: Looking at the map, in Riverside County there is an area centered around Corona, and another in Blythe. Check the map if you are near one of those areas.]

https://laist.com/news/climate-environment/sweet-orange-scab-spreads-to-la-and-ventura-counties-triggering-quarantine

Sweet orange scab spreads to LA and Ventura counties, triggering quarantine Sweet orange scab is a fungal pathogen that's already been found in Orange County. Here's what you need to know if you have citrus trees.