Forever Green Pinetum Multi-Cache
Goby1: Unable to maintain anymore. Too far from new home
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Fun little 3 stage Multi that should take less than 30 minutes.
I love these areas where people experiment and try growing different types of trees. Great place to have a picnic. For the best experience follow the yellow brick... I mean red shale path. :-)
The Crop Diversification Centre South is located in the semi-arid shortgrass prairie region of southeastern Alberta, where temperatures range from -40 to +39° C. Annual precipitation averages 300 mm, with rainfall averaging 150 mm during the growing season. The combination of irrigation, an average of 2,400 bright sunshine hours together with a long-term average growing season of 137 days, provide excellent conditions for plant growth.
In 1935, the Canadian Pacific Railway had losses of $400,000 in the “eastern section”; the Headquarters Farm was turned over to the Provincial Government. Since 1935, CDCS has played a key part in aiding in the establishment and further expansion of horticultural industries in Alberta.
The breeding programs at the Centre in the late 1950’s through the 60’s paid off with the release of Castle sweet pepper, and Brookpack tomato. Many of the fruit varieties with Brook in their name like Fallbrook raspberry and Brookgold plum originated from here. Speaking of plant releases, crosses made between a native female cottonwood collected at Steville in 1918, by Mr. Augustus Griffin, and a male Russian poplar are backbone of many of today’s farm shelterbelts. Six male clones were selected from the cross from these six, Brooks #1 was named “Griffin Poplar”, after Mr. Gus Griffin and Brooks #4 and #6 became part of the shelterbelt program in Alberta.
In 1981 the Centre was instrumental in the establishment of the commercial saskatoon berry industry. An over-the-row blueberry harvester and bush fruit cleaning equipment was adapted to saskatoons. This equipment was lent to producers to start them on their way to success in the saskatoon berry industry. Today there are about 2200 acres of saskatoon berry production in Alberta.
CDCS has been instrumental in educating growers in the “how-tos” of growing. We have long worked along side the greenhouse industry in Alberta trying new production methods. In the spring of 2010, a new state-of-the-art research and preproduction greenhouse will open at CDCS.
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