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  • May 15th 2008 Issue
  • Greenhouse cherries

    Pruning is a major difficulty in a greenhouse says grower Tom Wood, but combating pests is not an issue.

    Ripening cherries pictured on March 30 at the All Seasons Fruit Co. Tom Wood at All Seasons Fruit Co. in Centralia, Washington, began picking his 2008 cherry crop during the first week of April, while many cherry orchards in Washington were still in bloom. Wood grows a wide range of fruit and vegetable crops under cover and has 1,300 cherry, peach, apricot, plum, and nectarine trees in a 4,200-square-foot greenhouse. Customers come to the farm to buy the fruit, he said. “People just put in an order, and we pick it.” Wood has cropped his cherry trees twice a year […]

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