Contents

Contents

2 From the editor
4 President’s report
6 Letters
8 Drought hardy ground covers for food forests 12 Honeyberry in the USA
14 Golden passionfruit
18 Avocado orchard field trip
20  Collecting scion wood
21  Tapping syrup from trees
25  Homemade bitters
26  Creating swales
27  Feijoas fight fungi
28  Potential crops in New Zealand
29  The HSNO Act
31  Untreated eucalyptus posts
32  Growing forestry trees
34 Pollination discoveries
39 Climate change may increase pests in conventional agriculture
39  World’s heaviest blueberry
40  Soilsayers: testing for deficiencies
42  Research update
43  Obituary: Don Hamilton
44  Dr Don McKenzie Award recipients
45  Honorary life members
47  Pips & pieces
48  Subscriptions

Contents

Contents

2 From the editor
4 President’s report
5 Letters
7 Macadamia nuts – pollination
8 Fig cultivars: What’s in a name?
11 Candy Cotton grapes
15 Summer tasks in the orchard
16 Nashi pears
20 New Zealand’s oldest fruit trees
23 Conference 2018 – speakers
24 Conference 2018 – registration form
26 Conference 2018 – field trips
27 Commercial pine nut orchards
31 The aliens have landed
32 Myrtle Rust update
34 Growing bananas
38 Knowledge in a nutshell: Derek Craig
40 Evaluating your land for planting
45 A lifelong lifestyle
47 Pips & Pieces
48 Subscriptions

Contents

2 From the editor
4 President’s report
5 Inventive uses for crop waste
8 Capuli cherry
10 Spring tasks in the orchard
12 Growing frewood
14 The kakabeak: an endangered species
16 Snaffle the apple – saving heritage apples
21 Knowledge in a nutshell: David Whyte
23 The ins and ins of seed smuggling
26 Research update: haskap/honeyberry
28 Taro trials
31 Citrus brown rot
34 Trees for bees
38 Pips & Pieces
40 Subscriptions

Front cover:
Taro leaf

Contents

2 From the editor
3 President’s report
4 Letters
6 New South Island vice president
7 DIY olla
8 Apple breeding using genetics
10 Field trip: Waiata Gardens
12 Truffles Q&A
15 Growing szechuan pepper
17 Serviceberry (Amelanchier canadensis)
19 Nitrogen fixing plants
24 Life membership recipient: Bill Rae
25 Avocado trials with mycorrhizal fungi
28 Field trip: Plant & Food Research Riwaka
30 Conifer grafting
34 Winter tasks
36 Research update
38 Mountain pawpaw breeding
39 Knowledge in a nutshell: Eric Cairns
42 Pests: Argentine ants
45 The vision for NZ horticulture
46 Pips & Pieces
48 Subscriptions

Front cover:
Fruit kaleidoscope

Contents

2 From the editor
3 President’s report
4 New national secretary
5 Comfrey
9 Phenology in the field
12 Guava palaver
15 Feijoa maturity dates
16 Tree crops for every microclimate
21 Dung beetles
23 Fruit waste holds water
24 Hall Cup recipients
25 Nitrogen fixing plants
29 Biological farming in Australia
31 Autumn in the orchard
33 Knowledge in a nutshell
34 Conference 2017
35 Community fruit harvesting
36 Index – back issues 2015-2016
38 Pips & Pieces
40 Subscriptions

Front cover:
‘What the guava?” by Eric Buchmann.
Prints of his fruit inspired oil paintings, are available for purchase at www.saatchiart.com