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  • From: Doc Lisenby <longdistshtr@shtc.net>
  • To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Fruit for Georgia
  • Date: Fri, 09 Dec 2005 14:21:13 -0500

Lucky is the expert and has just about answered your inquiry. Warren Pear is my favorite. The other pears he mentioned prosper well in SC and should be tried. Stewart pecans do well here. Tifblue rabbiteyes produce more than I can gather. I have both Kaki and Native persimmons but have the same problem with sudden death of the Kaki. Centennial Crab is my favorite apple?? Northern Georgia may produce some good apples but not here in the Sandhill region. Low chill apples suck as far as I'm concerned. Figs, figs, figs, more kinds than I can identify (or anyone else) satisfy me and all the birds, June Bugs and wasps. Muscadine grapes produced over 100 lbs per vine this year. You have to experiment but my best one is Loomis. Blackberries could be commercially grown if it weren't for a virus in the wild berries. Peaches, for which Georgia is known, and we can grow the ones that don't ship well. Elderberries grow wild here but some cultivars surpass their production. Mulberries produce satisfactorily. Santa Rosa plums give me a good crop periodically.
With proper care some citrus can produce decent size crops. As you know, Georgia is a BIG state so there is hardly any fruit which can't be grown somewhere in the State.
Doc Lisenby
Zone 7/8





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