Ontario Fruit Explorers

["bert dunn" <helbert@idirect.com>]

Hi Tom, just a thought
Consider wrapping the burlap in strips around the trunk tightly so that
brother mouse does not crawl underneath for a mid-winter snack. To hold the
burlap in place, one could then put one of the plastic spiral wraps or small
hole chicked wire on the outside. Watch that the wrap/chick wire goes below
ground level. The burlap, plastic wrap may make a fair wind break.
Cheers               Bert
p.s. No comment on your cuttings for spring. Think of all those DINB's
waiting for your pots.


Sent: Tuesday, November 15, 2005 7:55 AM
> Hi Bert.
>
> Will do mid-December cuttings.
>
> I am also doing an experiment this year by wrapping the Isabella vine in
> burlap, in hopes of preventing winter die off to the roots.
>
> I wonder if it isn't the winter wind in Plattsville, that is drying out
> and killing the vine.  Always a wind here in Plattsville.
>
> This will be a test.
>
> Later,
> Tom
>