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["Lon J. Rombough" <lonrom@hevanet.com>]

Title: Re: [NAFEX] Apple Orchard

Apples For The 21st Century by Warren Manhart is a good book to start with in choosing varieties.

> From: MrMKoontz@aol.com
> Reply-To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2002 10:18:49 EDT
> To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
> Subject: [NAFEX] Apple Orchard

> I am in the planning stages of making an apple orchard.  I put in 10 trees for now and plan on another 50 in the spring and 50 in the fall.  Altogether I plan on about a 300-tree orchard. 
>
> I am working now but plan to retire in a year or two.  The orchard will be my new "job." 
>
> Any tips for someone new, who has a lot of desire but not a lot of know-how? 
>
> Thanks, 
> Mike