You can grow certain varieties of plums, cherries, and pears in South Dakota as fruit trees for zone 4 on the hardiness map. With cherries, there are two types: sweet and sour. The sweet varieties are not reliable in this…
Fruit Trees for Zone 4
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Apple Varieties in Zone 4 Climate
What apple varieties will grow in our cold Zone 4 climate? The worst thing is to wait several years and never have a crop because the fruit blossoms are not hardy. Some good varieties to grow in South Dakota are:…
Durian (The Smelly Fruit)
So why are grocery stores selling this? Like most controversial foods, durian is an acquired taste
Cedar Apple Rust in South Dakota
Cedar apple rust is a fungal disease that requires juniper plants to complete its complicated two-year lifecycle. Spores overwinter as a reddish-brown gall on young twigs of various juniper species. In early spring, during wet weather, these galls swell, and…
Mandarins, tangerines, clementine
A mandarin orange is a slightly smaller relative of the standard orange. The tangerine and clementine are varietals of the mandarin, much in the same way gala and fuji are apple varieties. Mandarins originated in China, hence the name. China is…