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  • From: tanis grif <tanisgrif@yahoo.com>
  • To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Saskatoons,acidic soil
  • Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 12:03:30 -0800 (PST)

Show me good fruiting available cultivars which will work here-- I'll grow
'em! I
like juneberries better than blueberries!


--- "bluestem_farm> wrote:
>
> You got it Tanis, we're at least mostly on silt. I have no experience with
> the
> cultivated Juneberries but I wonder why you fight your soil when there are
> native
> ones that like it?
> Muffy
>

> -- tanis grif wrote:
> That's stolonifera & arborea. Aren't the cropping cultivars alnifolia?
>
> There was an article about amelanchiers in a pre-internet 'Pomona' which
> had most
> of a page devoted to a list of known species.
>
> Hey Muffy, do I remember correctly that your soil is silt rather than sand?
>
>
> --- mark wessel wrote:
> > Tanis,
> > I doubt that soil on the acidic side is your problem. In fact i think
> > most
> > prefer a slighty acidic soil. I have seen Amelanchier stolonifera growing
> > on
> > sandy,peaty tidal plane in Maine. Also, here in Southern ohio, one of our
> > natives A. arborea grows on acid shale ridgetops.
> >
> > Mark
> > southern ohio
> >
>

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