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  • From: "Biz Storms" <biz.storms@sympatico.ca>
  • To: "Labruscagrape@Lists. Ibiblio. Org" <labruscagrape@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [OFEX] Fireblight on Highbush Cranberry
  • Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2006 15:50:00 +0000 GMT


Hello Everyone,

I am hoping that the group can help me with a current mystery. I have been
checking my orchard daily since fireblight was discovered this week at a
neighbouring orchard - a few kilometers away. It was found in a few of their
Tolman Sweets.
Yesterday I discovered what looked like fireblight in four of our Highbush
Cranberry. It has the shepherd's crook at the end of most of the affected
branches, plus the dead leaves, etc.
The fellow who manages many local orchards and who has been helping me out,
says it certainly looks like the fireblight found on apple trees, and did a
MAJOR prune. We will burn it today.
My question, is whether anyone has seen it appear in the cranberry family.
The information I have indicates apples, pears, hawthorns, and a few other
families - like rosacea.

On a more positive note, we're picking currants like crazy and the berry
population is astoundingly high. The blackberries forming this year are
awesome. We will have enough for a few batched of jam.

We requeened one of our hives, and will be extracting the first round of
honey either this weekend or next.

Everything else is thriving - especially the prickly thistles. Anyone else
getting overrun by thistles? They seem to be this year's epidemic, like the
Quenn Anne's Lace two years ago.

Thanks in advance for any info.
Cheers, Bizmark.
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