Recent Past Meetings
Laura Holly, an Orange County Master Gardener and second generation California Rare Fruit Grower, explained and demonstrated why, when, and how to prune fruit trees in the summer.Mango experts Khaled Hassan and Warren Lau explained how to successfully cultivate mangos in Southern California. We learned about the best mango varieties for our climate, how to propagate them and how to deal with disease issues, such as powdery mildew.Kelly Gabrysch, known for his YouTube channel FancyPlants, talked about some of the 75+ Eugenia species he is growing in his SoCal garden (plus dozens of different passifloras, annonas, pouterias and psidiums.)Julie Frink and Denny Luby, two of our chapter's most prominent avocado experts, teamed up to tell us everything they could think of about avocados.Eric Middleton, an Integrated Pest Management Advisor with UC Cooperative Extension, talked about the what he had learned growing blueberries at a UC test plot near the flower fields in Carlsbad.Don Winterstein, a long time chapter member and frequent contributor to the Fruit Gardener, gave us a virtual tour of his renowned orchard in the utility easement behind his backyard.A fabulous group of volunteers demonstrated various grafting and knife sharpening techniques.(Click on a meeting title to view the page for that meeting)