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  • From: "Christopher Mauchline" <mauch1@aol.com>
  • To: nafex@yahoogroups.com
  • Subject: [nafex] Cold
  • Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 14:22:48 -0000

It's been a cool, damp spring here, so much flowering, growth has
been delayed, but things have begun to push (apricot began flowering
last weekend) Tonight temperatures are predicted in the low 30s and
Wednesday night I've seen predictions as low as 27 degrees. If I
lose my fruit crop for the year so be it, but on a number of plants
the leaf buds have elongated and are starting to open. I'm concerned
that the buds might be killed and I might lose the plants. Is this a
legitimate concern?

I can set up a sprinkler in one place, but my plantings are somewhat
scattered. If we do get to 27 degrees I'm not sure a sprinkler would
help.

Any suggestions?

Chris Mauchline
SE PA, zone 6

P.S. One thought I had (since many of my plantings are small) was
that I could drape the plants with buds the furthest out with wet
towels.




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