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  • From: hector black <hblack@twlakes.net>
  • To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] pawpaws during drought
  • Date: Mon, 09 Sep 2002 11:54:01 -0700

We've had similar experience here in middle TN
It is extremely dry, but the pawpaws both in the orchard (where they have
a 2" mulch of rotted leaves) and in the wild
seem to be doing quite well. My daughter Annie treks through the woods to
all the pawpaw patches in the area, and says she has noticed little
difference in size or quantity from last year..
Hector Black zone 6 middle TN


----- Original Message -----
From: nottke <nottke1@earthlink.net>
To: <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Friday, September 06, 2002 6:06 PM
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] pawpaws during drought


> I live in Richard Moyer's "over the mountains" in NC (west of
> Winston-Salem) in an area labelled "Extreme Drought" by the various Ag
> authorities. And it is extremely dry; Yadkin River at half of its
previous
> record low flow, large number of wells have gone dry.
> But my pawpaws are doing well and a number of local trees have very good
> fruit set and large fruit - all these trees are middle age and located in
> less than half sun and at the bottom of slopes or on the edge of stream
> bottoms. My trees have a large doughnut of 3-5 inch deep mulch made of
> composted leaves and dried grass clippings. This summer they have also
> supported a colony of Zebra Swallowtail butterflies.
> Our pawpaws are ripening 2 weeks earlier than usual, and we had our first
> local pawpaw fruit-tasting almost two weeks ago, comparing Overleese,
> Sunflower, and a local wild native.
> I have seen two trees on a west-facing slope that had 3/4 shade until a
big
> oak died a year ago, and those two pawpaw trees are about dead; many dead
> limbs and only a few branches with normal leaf density and premature fruit
> drop.
>
> Jim Nottke
> Pfafftown, NC
> Hardiness Zone 7A
>
>
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