GARDEN Room (note the different room!)
Culver City Veterans Memorial Building
4117 Overland Ave, Culver City, CA 90230
I can’t begin to count the number of people who have asked for a speaker on mangos or the number of years we have been looking for one. But at long last, victory! JJ Licea of the South Bay Chapter has agreed to trundle north and fill us in on, well, just about everything: the best varieties, how to grow them, how to graft them and how to otherwise propagate them. JJ says: “I am a military veteran and third generation farmer who has been grafting for over 10 years with a 75 percent success rate (ed: I suspect he is being modest). I grow many fruit trees as a backyard grower… from Annona to Lilly Pilly’s, Mangoes and Hog Plums.”
Come and bring your mango questions.
And yes, bring snacks. Your humble chair is personally allergic to mangos and will therefore be bringing just her standard molasses cookies. But if some of you could bring mangos or whatever else you’re growing for us to taste, that would be great!
Speaking of great, Farshad Rafii is kindly donating a dozen grapevines (in 1-gallon pots) for you to buy. Those who visited his amazing mountain a couple of years ago will recall he was just beginning to establish a vineyard there and these are from that. There should be some amazing varieties.
You may have noticed that we are out of sync with our normal odd-month field trip, even-month lecture schedule. This is because the Culver City Easter Eggztravangza meant we weren’t going to be able to get anywhere near the parking lot on April 12th. There will be a field trip for members on that date instead. Details to follow in your newsletter.
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