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["Dennis Norton" <dmnorton@royaloakfarmorchard.com>]

Good idea, Jim.  I will be interested in knowing how the experiment goes. 
We are getting ready to move about 40 plum trees to a new location that will 
be a row next to our last peach row.  Plums and peaches together can be an 
issue because of peach phony.  Peach phony is a bacterial disease that has 
caused considerable damage to the peach industry in Zones 4 and 5. The 
disease is transmitted to healthy trees by leafhoppers. It is important to 
remove wild plum bushes, which are common sources of phony, before planting 
peaches. Also, peaches and plums should not be planted together in Zones 4 
and 5. This disease cannot be controlled with chemical sprays.

Since we are in Zone 5a, we are gonig to give it a try and see what happens. 
Let's keep in touch and see what our combined results are.

Dennis Norton
Royal Oak Farm Orchard
http://www.royaloakfarmorchard.com
http://www.theorchardkeeper.blogspot.com
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim Fruth" <jfruth@uslink.net>
To: <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Monday, May 01, 2006 9:13 AM
Subject: [NAFEX] Thinking Out Loud


>    One of my peach varieties usually doesn't ripen until about the time of
> my average first frost.  Plums, another Prunus, ripen earlier and I plan 
> to
> hand pollenate some peach blossoms with plum pollen to see if they ripen
> earlier.  If that works, I'd either plant a peach and a plum in the same
> hole or do extensive grafting of one onto the other.
>    Has anyone else ever done such silly(?) experiments?  If so, what and
> for what results?
> --
>
> Jim Fruth
> Brambleberry Farm
> Pequot Lakes, MN
> www.bberryfarm.com
> Jams, Jellies and Syrups
> (218)568-8483 [Store]
> (218)831-7018 [My cell]