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

Title: Re: [NAFEX] The Grape Grower

MY personal favorite would be a tossup between Swenson Red (bred by founding NAFEX member Elmer Swenson) or a good muscat.  If you insist on seedlessness, Reliance and Interlaken are tops in that category, though the new Jupiter (a seedless muscat) is looking very good.  HOWEVER, it depends a lot on where you live - the amount of cold hardiness needed, disease pressure, etc.  People in the SE U.S. couldn't grow any of those grapes at all, and in the north, they might or might not need to protect at least some of those in winter.  That's why I wrote The Grape Grower, to give readers an idea of what to do in each locale and what grapes might work best for them.
> -Lon Rombough
Grapes, writing, consulting, my book, The Grape Grower, at http://www.bunchgrapes.com

From: mark wessel <growyourown@earthlink.net>
> Reply-To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
> Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2003 23:05:18 -0400
> To: <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
> Subject: [NAFEX] The Grape Grower

> Lon, 
>    I have just read of your award from the GWA in the Summer Pomona. Rob
> Hamiltons review brought up a quesion. A hard one that I always dislike when
> people ask me whatever the topic. So lets say you had just one grape variety
> to live with, what would it be. Or maybe you could do different categories
> if that would be easier.
>
> Mark
>
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