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March 12, 2008

Food For Thought - Fruit Trees

Img_2884This week, a visit to a fruit tree nursery called Fruit Trees and More, near Sidney, BC, where Bob and Verna Duncan grow more than 200 varieties of apples, along with almost any other kind of temperate fruit tree you can think of.  Then there are the sub-tropicals, such as the grapefruit you see here, lemons, limes, oranges, even pomelos. 




Img_2908 Did I forget to mention the olive trees?  Yes, in this part of Canada you can produce fruit from Mediterranean-origin trees.  To listen to our conversation and some tips about what you need to think about when planning to plant fruit trees, click here.

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