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["Joe Boles" <jo.bo@rogers.com>]

Tanis:
It's not the acid soil. At the cottage property, blueberries grow wild 
everywhere and so do several species of amelanchier including the Saskatoon.
The cottage property is in zone 4.

  Joe, Mississauga, ON

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <bluestem_farm@juno.com>
To: <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Monday, March 28, 2005 10:04 PM
Subject: RE: [NAFEX] Saskatoons


> 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
>
> -- "Naomi"  wrote:
>
> Well then you can grow blueberries...I can't.
> Naomi
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org
> [mailto:nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of tanis cuff
> Sent: Monday, March 28, 2005 2:22 PM
> To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
> Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Saskatoons
>
> How to grow:  The last time this came up, I think the list figured out 
> that
> the reason I couldn't grow amelanchiers is because of loamy-sand soil 
> which
> leans toward acidic.  Growers with silty & clay soils, and mid to higher 
> pH,
> have no problem.  Test your soil.  (Listers please correct this if I'm
> recalling it wrong.)
>
> Tanis Cuff, s.WI, z4 or 5 depending on the year
>
>
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