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  • From: "Mark Garrison" <pawpaw1@cox.net>
  • To: "Sgroppino Farms" <sgroppino@sgroppino.com>, "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Pawpaws
  • Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 13:30:56 -0500

John wrote:
>pollinated by carrion flies, which may require >nailing a dead possum (or the equivalent) to a nearby >tree to attract them. 
 
Last year I used cottonseed meal (moistened, a handful under every few trees)  Don't know if that attracted carion flies as rumored, but I got my first big crop.  And it beats hanging up dead squirrels, which was the other advice I had.
 
Mark, RI zone 6



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