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- From: "Erdman, Jim" <ErdmanJ@uwstout.edu>
- To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: RE: [NAFEX] Fruity Opinions Wanted !!!
- Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2005 10:54:17 -0500
Hello,
I would be tempted to try both.
I really like sour or pie cherries--we grow or have grown Montmorency,
Meteor, and North Star, and I planted some Evans this spring. They are
delicious fresh or frozen and don't need additional sugar unless you are
making a cherry pie. The problem is the labor involved in picking them. I
have a friend with a small cherry orchard in Door county, Wisconsin, and they
use a mechanical tree-shaking picker but have gone to a pick-your-own
operation in recent years, along with a roadside stand, instead of marketing
through the local co-op.
After finally getting a couple of crops from two plum trees, have also
planted more plums--our orchard is just for our own use, by the way--because
fresh tree ripened plums are a real treat.
I think that plums and pie cherries could be marketed to customers interested
in good quality tasty fresh fruit.
Jim Erdman, zone 4, Western Wisconsin, an hour east of St. Paul, Minn.
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From: nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org on behalf of Richard MURPHY
Sent: Thu 6/2/2005 9:29 PM
To: nafex
Subject: [NAFEX] Fruity Opinions Wanted !!!
Hello Again, Clan;
I'm asking for your opinions, if you have a moment.............
I'm trying to plan another section of the orchard in zone 4, Maine, and
interested in your comments.
The purpose is to supply a roadside stand (tourist & local) and Farmers
markets.
There are already 90 apple trees of various distinctions; no supermarket
fodder.
The lot is 30,000 square feet, good slope SSE, good sun, clayish soil.
Question: If you had to choose between a tart cherry (Evans, Meteor, etc) or
a Plum (Stanley, Mt. Royal, etc) which would you choose?? Maybe neither?
PS: Last year I did a 'Fruit Buying Habits' questionnaire survey at work.
70 people responded to a number of market questions with various answers.
Anybody interested in seeing the results?
Thanks as usual for the comments; good or bad. Actually, there are no bad
comments, are there........
Murph
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Re: [NAFEX] Fruity Opinions Wanted !!!
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- Re: [NAFEX] Fruity Opinions Wanted !!!, list, 06/03/2005
- RE: [NAFEX] Fruity Opinions Wanted !!!, Stephen Sadler, 06/03/2005
- Re: [NAFEX] Fruity Opinions Wanted !!!, cpifer, 06/03/2005
- Re: [NAFEX] Fruity Opinions Wanted !!!, Pat Meadows, 06/03/2005
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[NAFEX] Fruity Opinions Wanted !!!,
Rodney Eveland, 06/03/2005
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[NAFEX] Sour cherry ripening,
derry and bill, 06/03/2005
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RE: [NAFEX] Sour cherry ripening,
Mark Lee, 06/03/2005
- Re: [NAFEX] Sour cherry ripening, Richard Kruse, 06/04/2005
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RE: [NAFEX] Sour cherry ripening,
Mark Lee, 06/03/2005
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[NAFEX] Sour cherry ripening,
derry and bill, 06/03/2005
- RE: [NAFEX] Fruity Opinions Wanted !!!, Brungardt, Sam, 06/03/2005
- Re: [NAFEX] Fruity Opinions Wanted !!!, Heron Breen, 06/03/2005
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RE: [NAFEX] Fruity Opinions Wanted !!!,
Erdman, Jim, 06/03/2005
- Re: [NAFEX] Fruity Opinions Wanted !!!, Claude Sweet, 06/03/2005
- RE: [NAFEX] Fruity Opinions Wanted !!!, Dave Griffin, 06/03/2005
- Re: [NAFEX] Fruity Opinions Wanted !!!, Jim Cooper, 06/03/2005
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