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  • From: <woodsjay@cox.net>
  • To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] Frozen Trees
  • Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2007 7:46:47 -0500

This is a report from Omaha which had the same 17 degree temperatures. All my
stuff that is zone 3 like golden currents and saskatoons didn't know anything
had happened. The zone 4 stuff has made it with only the loss of some leaves
(including oaks and sycamores). However, just a few of the apricot, cherry,
peach, pear, and plum bloom has made fruit. I won't have a good idea on the
apples for a week yet. The black walnut and filbert nut set looks bad. The
persian walnuts will take a couple of weeks before I know. The zone 5 stuff,
persimmons, paw-paws, and blackberries are too young to tell much at this
time. The figs are growing from cuttings taken in Alabama and were indoor
plants this year.

I recommend that cuttings and starts be taken every year from the
blackberries and figs as a backup measure. And, of course, all my stuff is
grown from seed (except the figs).
>
> From: "Kathy Evans" <evansdk@earthlink.net>
>
> In the Midwest USA, we had a bad cold snap a few weeks ago,
> preceded by very warm weather. Everything had been blooming and leafing
> out,
> and the new leaves and catkins and such were frozen. Now, 3 weeks later,
> many of the large trees throughout our woodlands, oaks and sycamores
> and hickories and more, look completely dead. Does anyone have experience
> with this....will they come back this year or at least next? Thanks,
> Kathy
>





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