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  • From: "loneroc" <loneroc@mwt.net>
  • To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Redstart Currant
  • Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2005 06:16:40 -0500

Ginda,

Is it too late to get on your Crandall List? If not please contact me off
line at loneroc@mwt.net. Thanks.

Steve Herje, Lone Rock, WI



----- Original Message -----
From: <list@ginda.us>
To: "NAFEX" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Saturday, April 16, 2005 6:15 PM
Subject: [NAFEX] Redstart Currant


> It's finally spring. As usual, everything is full of promise. Lots of
> flower buds on my baby apricot, and most everything made it through the
> winter. Buds swelling right and left. I think this is my favorite
> season to garden - nothing has been destroyed by insects, eaten by
> deer, etc., yet.
>
> I did have one winter failure. My redstart currant, which has been
> ailing ever since I transplanted it a couple of years ago. Maybe if I
> had cut back the top more, it would have made it. . .? Anyhow, I
> really liked the cultivar. It has an attractive growth habit, it has
> tasty fruit (yes, I think some red currants taste better than others)
> and it was extremely productive - which is probably what did it in -
> poor thing tried too hard to fruit when it should have been growing
> more root.
>
> If anyone could sell me a redstart currant, either this spring or this
> fall, I would be grateful. Massachusetts has a complicated patchwork
> of laws regarding currants (red ones are legal in some counties, but
> not others) and even though it is legal to ship red currants to my
> address, most of the big operations don't want to bother keeping track
> of the Mass. laws, and just restrict the whole state. So it's hard for
> me to shop for specific cultivars. (I got mine from Nourse, which is
> located in Mass., and actually tracks the country-by-county laws. But
> they have replaced it with Rovada in their catalog.)
>
> Thanks,
> Ginda
>
> p.s. I see that my Crandall currant is beginning to sprout. In
> another week or two or three, I should be able to dig up some suckers
> for the people who asked for them.
>
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