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Like Mark, my control group will be guaranteed to be scabby and wormy.  I'll 
try some in Hot California Interior Valleys - zone 9/13 - right on the border.

Laura, Orangevale (near Sacramento)

Quoting Mark Lee <markl@nytec.com>:

> I will do testing in the grey, overcast Puget Sound Convergence Zone,
> zone 7B/8A.  The control group is guaranteed to be scabby on the
> outside
> and wormy on the inside.
> -Mark Lee, Seattle
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org
> [mailto:nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Naomi
> Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2004 8:39 AM
> To: North American Fruit Explorers
> Subject: RE: [NAFEX] of sandwich bags and apples
> 
> I will conduct the Idaho Zone 6, hot summer sun plastic bag
> experiment.
> Naomi
> Idaho
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org
> [mailto:nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org]On Behalf Of Stefan Brandle
> Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2004 9:05 AM
> To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
> Subject: [NAFEX] of sandwich bags and apples
> 
> 
> Bagging with sandwich bags sounds interesting. Perhaps impractical for
> large plantings -- as Tom Olenio pointed out -- and maybe a lost cause
> in Indiana -- I'm aware of Ed Fackler's cautions about the feasibility
> of organic growing here -- but the siren song is just so attractive.
> :-)
> 
> So I'm going to try giving it a shot with sandwich bags, paper bags,
> and
> the proverbial control group with nothing. Expect a report in
> September
> or thereabouts. If more people are willing to join in and someone with
> knowledge about how to do a study properly wants to give advice on
> what
> to do, that would be great. It is worth finding out whether this stuff
> is feasible for home growers in the midwest, as opposed to places with
> lower pest/disease pressure. The happy bagging stories seem to come
> from
> Oregon and such, but that may not transfer.
> 
> Elsewhere in the news, my lone nanking cherry -- it's buddy bowed out
> a
> couple years ago -- has been flowering up a storm, but no pollinator.
> I
> felt sorry for it (and perhaps just a hint of vested interest on my
> part) and planted another couple nanking cherries this week, so maybe
> next year we'll have something. My actinidia look much less like a
> cane
> forest and more like a real arbor after my pruning in early March. Now
> if the one male can just do his thing and the pollinators cooperate.
> The
> depressing thing is the deer. Last summer, I put fairly large plastic
> deer netting fences around a number of the trees and bushes. That
> really
> made a difference, but I ran out of time and supplies and didn't do
> everything. The ones that didn't get fenced got seriously munched. I
> think that our yard must be high on the deer's progressive dinner
> schedule. I keep wanting to do something crazy like put in an acre of
> hardwoods, but thoughts of the deer act as a significant deterrent.
> 
> -- sb
> 
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