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[tanis grif <tanisgrif@yahoo.com>]

Nope.  I've protected my amels from all munchers.  (FORGOT to protect against 
voles
last fall, but fortunately no vole damage happened!)  I think the ones we see 
wild
in the woods here (sWI) and 'Up Nort' are different species than the oft 
planted
Timm & Success & other heavier fruiting cultivars.

They showed only one quarter to one half inch of growth for several years 
(would
have removed them, if I wasn't curious), until I started spiking the soil pH.


--- "bluestem_farm> wrote:
> 
> Tanis,
> I've seen Amelanchiers growing in the North woods, where I'm sure the soil 
> is
> acidic.   My two cents worth is that if you can't grow them, it's because 
> they are
> being eaten.  They grow fine here on our farm where the soil isn't 
> particularly
> sweet (I can't tell you what it is 'cause we've never gotten it tested)  
> but I'm
> the only one who will ever see them because they get munched to ground 
> level every
> year, usually by July.  When I moved one and fenced it against the deer, I
> discovered that rabbits will eat them to the ground, too--and that they 
> could get
> through the deer fence.  I have one almost well enough barricaded, and the 
> parts
> that aren't being eaten look fine.  
> Muffy
> 
>

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