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> James how did your pears do regarding the frost? I think the peach farmers
> hereabouts came within one degree of losing another crop.
> 

This year the blossoms seem to have escaped the frost.  Seems as if the peach 
trees have escaped as well, but I can't tell for sure about them yet.  The 
lowest it has been recently has been about 28 or 29 degrees and that is right 
on 
the edge of where blossoms will damage.

Actually the only danger from anything but a real deep freeze in the low 
twenties for these fruit trees is when the blossoms are fully open by not yet 
fertilized.  One group of pear tress had set the fruit before the coldest 
temps 
and one group opened their blossoms just after.  Luck, that.   </HTML>