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  • From: "Joe Boles" <jo.bo@rogers.com>
  • To: "Ontario Fruit Explorers" <labruscagrape@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [OFEX] Mississauga
  • Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2006 14:43:29 -0500

Tom:
 
I'm not familiar with the trees you are asking about but they do wrap trees for other reasons.
Some ornamental conifers are wrapped so that the snow and ice does not damage branches by pulling them to the ground. I'm sure you know what freezing rain can do to trees. Also new plantings of larger coniferous trees are wrapped to protect them from the sun as well as the drying winds through the winter.
 
 
    Joe
 
 
----- Original Message -----
From: bert dunn
Sent: Monday, December 04, 2006 9:29 AM
Subject: Re: [OFEX] Mississauga

Good morning
My 2 cents worth--- Tom knows my position here.
There are so many of grape varieties able to take-30'C & winds that I'm
still confulzilcated on why anyone tries to grow varieties that are on the
knife edge of death in winter (I'm a special exception of course). If in the
past 8 years your area has had-25'C, then only grow varieties that
take -26'C and if your area has had -30'C---and so on & so on.
I do not wrap, bury, cover, hill up, mulch. That's a lie, I give some new
plants a chicken wire cage from rabbits the first winter.
Do what I say, not what I do--  :-))              Cheers        Bert

Bert Dunn  Box 352 Schomberg    LOG1T0     1-905-880-4453


Sent: Monday, December 04, 2006 7:20 AM
> Hello all,
>
> I have some questions for those in Mississauga...
>
> In the past we have discussed wrapping grapes to protect them from drying,
> winter winds.  This weekend I found myself in Mississauga (it happens
> about once a decade) and at the corner of Hurontario and Buramthorpe
> (sp?), down the center promenade, there were tall narrow trees, wrapped in
> burlap.  They must be 20-25' tall.
>
> Are these wrapped for drying winter winds?  What are they?  Is Mississauga
> WINDY in winter?  Should we reconsider our winter grape wrapping advice
> for Mississauga?
>
> Later,
> Tom


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