NZTCA TreeCropper 77

TreeCropper Issue 77 March 2014
Front Cover: Photo by John Cowan — Winning photograph of the 2013 NZTCA Conference’s photographic competition. The face is of one-year-old grandson Joseph…
1	Editor’s opinion	Sheryn Clothier
2	President’s report	Murray Redpath
3	Your letters
6	Pips and pieces
8	Lucuma Tree – Pouteria Iucuma Frankincense	Kathrina Muller John Dean
9	Blue Honeysuckle – Lonicera caeulea	Kathrina Muller
10	Kati Kaiway – community fruit tree planting	Elizabeth Rae
12	Sheep Hurdles	John Fergusson
13	Bioinformatics and Genomic workshop
14	Brix – as an indicator of produce quality	David Whyte
17	David Whyte profile Fermented feijoa drink
18	Sugar	Gail Newcomb (Ain’t she sweet…)
20	Conference 2014 Registration
22	Hemp	Harry Cording
25	Pruning techniques	Emily Jasmine
26	Crop production cycle	Sjef Lamers
29	Ume—shu (Japanese plum wine)	Neville Chun
31	Making mycorrhizal inoculum
33	Cracking clay soils	Mike and Sue Davies
34	In praise of natural mutants	Robert Mann
36	Index of previous articles
39	Introducing Queen Elizabeth II Trust – covenanting?
	Membership form, NZTCA Committee contacts
Back cover: Orchardists have been complaining to me this season, even more than normal, about bird damage. Overleaf are some of the more permanent structures and scarers I have seen, but cheaper methods… Subscribe to TreeCropper…