Ontario Fruit Explorers

["joe calico" <jcalico@sympatico.ca>]

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Content preview:  Isn't it wonderful; we've had a great Winter with a thick
  snow cover to provide a 'thermal' blanket for our plants. Thick it is, lying
   layer upon layer up the side of the trunks of our young trees as if to tuck
   them in and save them from the bitterly cold nights. [...] 

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• From: "joe calico" <jcalico@sympatico.ca>
• To: <labruscagrape@lists.ibiblio.org>
• Subject: Rabbits
• Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2008 11:04:30 -0500

Isn’t it wonderful; we’ve had a great Winter with a thick snow cover to provide a ‘thermal’ blanket for our plants.  Thick it is, lying layer upon layer up the side of the trunks of our young trees as if to tuck them in and save them from the bitterly cold nights. 

 

Then, along come the pesky rabbits and chew up the ‘fruits’ of our grafting labour.  What a heart breaker.  Just in the last two days, the local Credit River rabbits clambered up to my garden, sat on the laid out, welcoming white ‘table cloth’ and begun to clean out many of my grafted scions which have taken me the best of three or four years to nurture.  They attacked all my four pear trees, some branches as thick as 1.5 inches.  I have (had) one quince with 12 pear varietals such as Abate Fatel, Nitaka, Rocha, Napoca, etc.  Those are all gone.

 

Oh yes, and the newly budded peach seedlings have been nipped, literally in the bud.

 

And, the moral of the story?  Yeah, yeah, I’ve heard it before, but what’s a person to do when he’s so comfy in the house, watching the snow falling, thinking how much of a picture post card it is and dreaming about the birds and bees in the soon-to-arrive spring?

 

Joe C.

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