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  • From: lee reich <lreich@hvc.rr.com>
  • To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Cedar Tree and Apples
  • Date: Tue, 16 May 2006 09:42:59 -0400

The spores for cedar-apple rust can travel 4 miles, so cutting down your cedar tree will have little effect unless it's the only cedar around.

Lee Reich, PhD

Books by Lee Reich:
Uncommon Fruits for Every Garden
A Northeast Gardener's Year
The Pruning Book
Weedless Gardening



On May 16, 2006, at 9:06 AM, Zeugitai wrote:

The local nurseryman warned me that apples and cedars "co-host."  I nodded and took it to mean that they harbor mutually antagonistic organisms, but that was just my guess. I have one old cedar tree in front by the drainage ditch. It's always cut down to twenty feet by the power company people, but has a twenty foot spread to it.  It might as well be a bird hotel for all the birds living in it: brown thrasher, mockingbird, sparrows, blackbirds, mourning doves.... But I have put in young apple trees all around the house varying from a minimum of 40 feet away going back to a hundred feet.  I am now seeing small orange blotches on the leaves of several closer trees and was informed that this is due to the cedar. My question is whether the cedar must go for the apples' sake, or whether pruning it back would help.  And what's the cure for the blotches?  Thanks
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