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[tanis grif <tanisgrif@yahoo.com>]

Thanks for all the info.  Certainly is a lot to figure out.

Muffy, were you reading the list sometime ago when someone was describing how 
the
meadow-voles mowed their amelanchiers?  You might have to use finer fencing 
yet!


--- Joe Boles <> wrote:

> 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
> To: <nafex@
> 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
> >
> 


                
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