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Saturday March 8th @ 10 am – noon: Mangos! Mangos! Mango! with JJ Licea

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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Growing Mangos in Los Angeles! (via Zoom) August 14th @ 10 am

Jeff Wasielewski is the Commercial Tropical Fruit Crops Extension Agent for UF/IFAS Extension in Miami-Dade County. He is an expert horticulturist with 25 years of experience working with tropical fruit crops and growing techniques in south Florida. Jeff’s goal is to assist all commercial tropical fruit growers in south Florida by providing current, science-based information through classes, lectures, publications, videos, and social media.  And  — although we are mostly amateurs far from Florida  — he is being kind enough to share his wisdom with us!

“Growing Mangos in Los Angeles” will cover topics such as plant selection, planting, pruning, fertilizing, and general mango care. We will also talk about the main form of propagation for mangos which is grafting.

If you are a chapter member, you will receive your Zoom links in your newsletter.  If you are not a member but would like to tune in, please let us know.

 

Photo by Alexander Schimmeck on Unsplash