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  • From: "Lon J. Rombough" <lonrom@hevanet.com>
  • To: nafex@egroups.com
  • Subject: Re: [nafex] (unknown)
  • Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2000 17:38:24 -0700

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>From: zapala@hotmail.com
>To: nafex@egroups.com
>Subject: [nafex] (unknown)
>Date: Sun, Jul 16, 2000, 5:27 PM
>

>This has been a disastrous year for horticultural activities here in
>northeastern Vermont. Records for rainfall were set in April and
>May, and nights were cold. There was very little sun. As a result,
>there was very little pollination. Most of my 100 or so apple trees
>are fruitless and, the few that do have fruit, are of such poor
>quality that spraying at this point is of little value.
>
>Because of the excess rain in April and May, I was unable to attend
>to orchard activities - grass went unmowed, for example. I just
>couldn't get out there - and I wanted to clear grass from around the
>base of the trees to fertilize them, but couldn't get to that either.
>
>The poor growing conditions extended to all other areas - I had to
>plant some veggie seeds twice (they rotted in the ground the first
>time), tomato plants are big and healthy but don't bear much fruit,
>cukes and squashes are slow growing, etc., etc. We have had no warm
>nights to date either.
>
>One thing the rain did was to make trees and other vegetation really
>grow by leaps and bounds - everything is lush and verdant.
>
>In addition to the foregoing, the deer have been especially voracious
>this year. They practically destroyed about 20 apples trees I
>planted in the lower orchard last spring ('99). They were Hazens and
>Sweet 16s and Hayer. All that's left are some bare branches at the
>top of the central leader which is intact on all of them. It's all
>very discouraging. Of course, what is needed is a bullet - but deer
>are nocturnal and I don't feel like hunting at 3 AM! Otherwise,
>someone's suggestion of a board fence is the other alternative. But
>they are really ugly and I hesitate to go that route. And it's
>expensive too.
>
>Another year is coming.
>
>Regards,
>Armando Bona
>
>
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