News for growing nut trees

Cloning your best chestnut trees allows you to make identical copies of a tree that you believe is a superior tree. Clones of a superior tree you can plant on final spacing to increase productivity or expand your orchard and share or trade the best genetics with other growers.   Cloning a known tree via layering is lower cost than most seedlings without the unknown production, disease resistance and double planting needed for seedlings. 

In only a few easy steps we can do this by encouraging sucker (a.k.a. shoot) growth, then encouraging root growth on the suckers and then dig them up before they start to grow again in the following spring.

What is in this newsletter?

• Z’s Nutty Ridge First farm tour August 19th
• We had a deep late freeze and then a drought. Are the trees okay, Answered!
• NYTCA Cooperative is setting up shop.
• NYTCA is hiring an Outreach Coordinator
• Cultivar Spotlight – Photon - A very unusual hazelnut tree