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  • From: Diane Whitehead <voltaire@islandnet.com>
  • To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Fall Planting
  • Date: Sat, 4 Jun 2005 19:28:19 -0700

I imagine it depends where you live, Doreen.

Here, fall planting is easy because the soils are still warm from the summer, and rains begin about October and continue through the winter. Plants can grow new roots and become well-established before they need to put out new leaves and flowers in the spring.

If we plant in the spring, the soils are still cold from the winter, and then comes the rainless summer. It is harder to get plants established.

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Diane Whitehead Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
maritime zone 8
cool mediterranean climate (dry summer, rainy winter - 68 cm annually)
sandy soil




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