TreeCropper 57 - Tree Crops

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Photo - full bunches of bananas on tree

Conference 2009 - Photograph of Kapiti Coast by Grant Baxter of Ocean Retreat homestay

TreeCropper Issue 57 – March 2009
Front cover: A banana plant growing in an unheated greenhouse.
1	Editor’s opinion	Sheryn Clothier
2	Message from the President	Murray Redpath
3	Letters to the editor – Politics unavoidable, needless instrumentation, pine nut cracker?
4	Conference 2009	Kapiti Coast
7	Walnut blight	Nick Nelson Parker
9	Bananas	Roger and Janet Bodle, Sheryn Clothier
14	Persimmons	incredible edibles
17	Timber for tools	Wendy Evans
18	Olives – first harvest	Sonja Matla
20	Biochar	Raewyn Johnston, Sheryn Clothier
22	HortResearch reform	Sheryn Clothier
21	Chestnut – nut rot	Sheryn Clothier
24	Hazelnut research	Maurice Deton & Jim Hammonds
25	Filbert worm (hazelnut)	Watch out for this pest
26	Big pine cones	Sheryn Clothier
28	Eucalypts for post	Eric Cairnes
30	Hazelnut harvesters	Peter Syms, Maurice Denton
34	Vanilla in NZ	Sheryn Clothier
36	Natives for bees	Tree list, and varroa hint
37	Book reviews	Continuous Cover Forestry
38	Pips and pieces	Olive trees, Event signs, GT mags, NZTCA books
39	Upcoming Events	NZTCA Conference and more
40	Membership application
Inside back cover	Suppliers’ index	plan and order for winter planting
Back cover: Conference 2009 notice: Register before 15 March 2009! Photograph by Grant Baxter of Ocean Retreat homestay.

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