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  • From: Lucky Pittman <Lucky.Pittman@murraystate.edu>
  • To: nafex@egroups.com
  • Subject: Re: [nafex] Green Gage Plums
  • Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 08:46:55 -0500

At 08:11 AM 08/19/2000 -0700, you wrote:
>In most texts, authors rave about green gage plums. I'm grown a number of
>them over the years and frankly, I've not been impressed.

I've had one in the ground for 6 growing seasons now, and it's never even
blossomed. It's three times the size of any other plum or peach growing in
my orchard, and I've not fertilized it in 3 years, in hopes of stressing it
into fruit production.
I suppose I'll leave it, as my wife thinks she wants peaches/plums, etc.,
but all in all, stonefruits are not worth the time & effort for me - to
many borers & curculios, etc. to fit in with my laissez-faire management
style.
Lucky Pittman
USDA Zone 6
Hopkinsville, KY


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