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  • From: tanis grif <tanisgrif@yahoo.com>
  • To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Saskatoons
  • Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 13:35:09 -0800 (PST)

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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