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[Doug Woodard <dwoodard@becon.org>]

George, check out the website of Ernie Grimo's nursery at
Niagara-on-the-Lake at
http://www.grimonut.com/ .
<nuttrees(at)grimonut.com>

He sells seedling pawpaws, grafted persimmons, seedling and grafted nut
trees, and many other interesting things.

I notice that he says that pawpaws are suitable from "zones 6 to 8". If
you are in Agriculture Canada zone 5a, I would not be optimistic about
your chances with pawpaws.

If you really want to experiment, you could plant a bunch of seed and see
if anything survives. You might be able to buy seed of good quality hardy
pawpaws from Ernie or from

Douglas Campbell
Campberry Farm
RR 1
Niagara-on-the-Lake
Ontario  L0S 1J0
(905) 262-4927

You might want to join the Society of Ontario Nut Growers/S.O.N.G.
http://www.songonline.ca
They provide an excellent handbook with initial three-year
memberships. I recommend it.

They have an Eastern Ontario chapter centred around Ottawa, oriented
to the hardier material:
http://ecsong.ca

Ernie Grimo, the main founder of S.O.N.G., has been working with
pawpaws, persimmons, nuts etc. for 30+ years. He is very knowledgeable
and reliable. I suspect that he has collected a lot of information
about the hardiness of pawpaws from his customers and colleagues
over the years - ask him.

Doug Woodard
St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada


On Thu, 26 Sep 2002, Georger wrote:

> He everybody,
>      I  recently got interested in PawPaw as I still have room for few more 
> trees in my backyard. I tried the nurseries and Big Boxes with no luck. 
> After reading in The Toronto Star, I drove 100 KM to a plant sale held by U 
> of Guelph (Ontario, Canada).  Only reason for my drive is just to get 
> pawpaw. I am late by 30 minutes and it was sold out.
> I have few questions about it...
>
> 3. Is there any place/ person in Canada where I can get a tree for this 
> fall planting?
>
> George R. (5a)
> georger@rogers.com