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(306) 477-0713 Peterborough Kingston RETURN UNDELIVERABLE CANADIAN ADDRESSES TO: Barrie Toronto CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT PO BOX 838, STN MAIN, SASKATOON, SK S7K 3L7 London Hamilton www.lakeshoregardencentre.com email: [email protected] Windsor TREES & SHRUBS EDIBLE PRUN ‘Evans’ sour cherry U S Dwarf sour cherries are self-compatible, meaning they don’t need another variety nearby to set fruit. Shrubs start producing fruit in four or five years and, depending on cultivar, ripen from the end of July into the second week of August. When harvesting fruit, it is important to make sure that the cherries are the proper ripe A common insect pest of sour cherries is the cherry fruit fly, colour. TREES & which lay their eggs in developing cherry fruit. The eggs hatchS andHRUB S Fruit can be bright red, burgundy or almost grow into white maggots by the time the fruit matures. They are very black, depending on cultivar. Fruit size and unappealing and difficult to control without using chemicals. From the Letters bloom time varies from variety to variety, with ‘Carmine Jewel’ blooming first and having the Editor smallest fruit and ‘Cupid’ blooming last and Chokecherry having the largest fruit. Hello Saskatoon! Dear Friends, ripening to harvest. This tree, some eight feet tall Chokecherry Diseases & pests – Several diseases can (P. virginiana), also referred to as and wide, produced a recorded (and remarkable!) bitter berry or Virginia bird cherry, is native Welcome to The In the Fall edition of 2018 (page 41) a definition Dear Laura, cause significant issues in sour cherries: to North America. It was used by Indigenous 450 pounds of ripe red cherries. The average yield cherry leaf spot and brown rot. Cherry leaf by Ralph Waldo Emerson is very interesting: “a Thank you for sharing your story and your request Evans Cherry people as a source of food, wood and medicine. Gardener — if of the commercial Montmorency sour cherries spot is the most destructive cherry disease. It’s plant whose virtues have not been discovered for more information on zones. The plums that we I was flattered to see the ‘Evans cherry’ on It is a large, upright, fast growing shrub grown you haven’t heard grown in the US (Michigan and Wisconsin) a fungus that causes brown spots to appear both for its edible fruit and ornamental value. yet.” featured were developed as part of the University of the front cover of The Gardener. It’s the cherry I on leaves, which then coalesce into irregular of us before, we averages only 50 pounds per tree. By comparison, Saskatchewan Fruit Program, so they are generally rescued from oblivion in 1976 in Sherwood Park, blotches that dry up into “shot gun” holes. Eastern chokecherry (P. virginiana var. This is the case with milkweed (Asclepias). My the cultivars Meteor and North Star did very virginiana) is named after its native range, are a Canadian- hardy to Zone 2. Our subscribers come from areas Alberta. PART TWO: Leaves eventually become yellow and drop to father did not like this plant with the seeds in poorly in my garden, producing only a few the ground, making the tree more vulnerable which includes the state of Virginia, but it’s based gardening that range from Zone 1 thru 9 and we generally try the silk, that the wind spread everywhere. He I was Alberta Agriculture’s Provincial Plant pounds of berries on eight-year-old trees. to winter damage. To prevent spreading the also found across Canada from the east coast magazine to focus on plants that will work in most areas of the disease, burn, bury or remove any fallen to Alberta and into the Northwest Territories. named it “petits cochons” or “little beast.” Pathologist when I travelled to Horse Hill, I have no explanation for the phenomenal Eastern chokecherry fruit can be black, red or specializing in country, but we also recognize that despite this, our Alberta, midway between Edmonton and Fort leaves. Wow, it is the “Soyer du Quebec”, the silk of readers in Zones 1-2 are gardening in particularly yield of the Evans cherry—it seems to produce yellow. Western chokecherry what we can Saskatchewan visited, in late July. In response Brown rot is a fungus that causes fruit melanocarpa) Quebec. It is currently being grown in Quebec just about two cherries for every leaf in some Black-fruited chokecherry (P. virginiana var. grow in our climate—published right here in challenging climates and will find some of the plants to an enquiry about phenomenal cherry trees to rot rapidly as it’s ripening. It has become increasingly common on word melanocarpa has purplemeans toblack-fruited). black fruit (the It’s for many important properties: for new difficult to grow. We will do our best to include seasons. The cherry is certainly CherriesZoneBy Lisa 3 hardy, Taylor the ‘Carmine Jewel,’ which appears to be more susceptible than other found across much of western North America growing in the area, I was shown an orchard Saskatoon. materials for clothing, acoustics, absorption of but good cherry crops have been grown in the varieties. Removing infected fruit and twigs will help control the fungus as far north as the boreal forests of Alaska. hardiness information where we can. of Evans cherries owned by Mrs. Bogward, a In the Fall issue of The Gardener, we explored some of the hardier plum species and cultivars toxins and water repellence. Maybe someone Zone 2 Northwestern Peace River Region and the following year, as will pruning to increase airflow. You can also plant We began as the Saskatchewan Gardener, lady well into her seventies. Mrs. Bogward told varieties that show resistance to brown rot. Although they’re called shrubs, from Quebec would be interested in writing on the Northeastern Fort McMurrayavailable Region to ofCanadian gardeners. In this issue, we’ll turn our attention to some other two and nine metres (6.5–30chokecherries ft.) tall. Theycan actually begin to grow fruit between only three became The Gardener for the Prairies and have me that if I wanted to save these cherry trees, I this subject. Alberta. Commercial pick your own Evans cherry years after planting. They sucker profusely, a trait that makes them should dig up the rooted suckers immediately. including sour cherries, chokecherries, Nanking cherries, pin cherries, even apricots. a popular choice on farms for shelterbelts, but a less ideal choice for recently expanded our reach into other regions orchards now range from Prince George, BC to Re: Edible Prunus in your winter 2018-19 Edition She said her land had been acquired to build a city gardens. Seeds are also spread through bird droppings. Some of Canada. We have never lost our focus on Bye! I very much like The Gardener magazine. Winnipeg. At present, this cherryDwarf issour available cherries federal prison, and work was set to commence varieties are grown primarily for their ornamental value, as their providing information and inspiration to the across Canada and most, if Truenot sour all, cherries of the (Prunus cerasus) are native to Europe and Fernande G.

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