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PFC Spring Grafting Show – March 16, 2024

Join us Saturday, March 16, from 10 AM to 4 PM, at the West Side Improvement Club, 4109 West E Street, Bremerton 98312.

Peninsula Fruit Club presents the 2024 Spring Grafting Show.

Learn how to graft and make your own fruit tree, or have one of our members make it for you. Add varieties to existing trees. Beginners welcome! Choose from hundreds of antique and modern varieties of apples, pears, plums, and more. We will be selling EMLA 26, Bud 10, and Geneva 969 apple rootstock, OHxF 87 pear rootstock, Myrobalan plum rootstock, and Krymsk 5 cherry rootstock; scion wood for grafting; and sticks of figs, grapes, and kiwis for rooting. We’ll have plum, cherry, and apple trees and blueberry bushes at the plant/tree sale as well as other plants, footies for insect protection, grafting knives, mason bees, houses and straws , and other supplies. Learn all about pests and diseases and what to do about them. Find out about our native mason bees and how to care for them. We’ll have lots of experts on hand to try to answer all your fruit related questions. Spend some time with us at the show and learn all kinds of interesting things. Admission is free, but donations are greatly appreciated.

PFC Nov. 9 – Hard Cider with Bill Sproules

This month’s meeting topic is about making hard cider.  Bill Sproules, retired previous owner of Olympic Brewing Supplies on Wheaton Way, will teach us about small batch fermentation.  The meeting is at the Sheridan Park Community Center, 680 Lebo Blvd., Bremerton, on Thursday, Nov. 9.  Doors open at 6:40 pm for social time, and the meeting starts at 7 pm.

PFC Oct.12 – Ken Miller on biochar

Ken Miller from Vashon will be teaching us about biochar at our next meeting on Thursday, Oct. 12 at 7 pm.  Ken’s presentation will start promptly at 7 pm.  We meet at the Sheridan Park Community Center, 680 Lebo Blvd., Bremerton.  Doors open at 6:40 pm for social time.

Peninsula Fruit Club 2023 Fall Fruit Show

The Peninsula Fruit Club 2023 Fall Fruit Show is just around the corner!  Save the date, Oct. 28, and come and taste to your heart’s content.  The show opens at 10 am and runs until 4 pm at the West Side Improvement Club, 4109 West E Street, Bremerton.  Get your mystery apples identified—bring 5 or 6 ripe, unwashed apples of each mystery variety in a paper bag, be sure the stems are still on, and tell us about the tree.  If they are ripe before the end of October, please store them in the refrigerator in a paper, not plastic, bag.  This year we are accepting leaf samples along with the apples.  Bring a 12” stem with leaves in a plastic bag.  The plastic bag with leaves can be put inside the paper bag of apples.  Come and learn about growing fruit, get your questions answered, stock up on items for next year, and buy something new at the plant and tree sale.  We can accept cash, checks, and credit cards.  Admission is free. 

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PFC Sept. 14 – Lisa DeVetter

PENINSULA FRUIT CLUB SEPT 14TH MEETING: Our presenter at the Sept 14 Fruit Club meeting is: Lisa Wasko DeVetter, Associate Professor, Small Fruit Horticulture. Lisa is from Washington State University Northwest Research and Extension Center (WSU NWREC, Mount Vernon). Lisa will give us an update on WSU NWREC’s mission and key projects, including providing info on blueberries. Due to her travel arrangements, Lisa will start presenting at 7:00 p.m. for approximately 40 minutes. The business meeting will be held afterwards. Join us at the Sheridan Park Community Center, 680 Lebo Blvd., Bremerton. Doors open at 6:40 p.m.

PFC July 13 – Tool sharpening

Join us Thursday, July 13, for a tool sharpening night.  Several different members will show us how they sharpen their pruners and grafting knives.  Bring your dull ones and give their suggestions a try.  We meet at the Sheridan Park Community Center, 680 Lebo Blvd., Bremerton.  Doors open at 6:40 pm for socializing.  Meeting starts at 7.

PFC June 8 – Fertilizer with Mike Geiser

PFC member Mike Geiser will talk about fertilizer at our next meeting on Thursday, June 8, at the Sheridan Park Community Center, 680 Lebo Blvd., Bremerton.  The meeting starts at 7 pm, but doors open early for social time.

PFC May 11 – Blueberries with Andrea Gergen

Join us on Thursday, May 11, 2023, at the Sheridan Park Community Center, 680 Lebo Blvd., Bremerton to learn all about growing blueberries with Andrea Gergen, Master Gardener and member of Peninsula Fruit Club. Come at 6:40 pm for social time, meeting starts at 7.

PFC April 13 – Pests and Control with Alan Lowe

Join us this Thursday, April 13, at the Sheridan Park Community Center, 680 Lebo Blvd. in Bremerton to hear PFC former President Alan Lowe talk about pests and different means of pest control.  The meeting starts at 7 pm, but come from 6:40 on for social time.

PFC March 9 – Grafting with Mike Geiser

Join us on Thursday, March 9, and learn how to graft. Bring some sticks to practice on. We will have grafting knives available. Mike Geiser will give a brief presentation on grafting, and then there will be hands-on practice. Social time starts at 6:40 pm. Meeting starts at 7 pm at the Sheridan Park Community Center, 680 Lebo Blvd., Bremerton.