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["Richard MURPHY" <murphman108@msn.com>]

Hello;

 

I just read my email broadcast in Pomona.

It was correct at the time I wrote it, but needs a slight modification.

 

The plants in standing water did live for a very long time. Longer than I thought they would, given the huge rainfall Maine had this year. BUT.......... most of the lot planted in the wet soil are either sick or dead.

 

I do have a lot of healthy plants left out of the original 1000.

Will do a count this September (wow... next month !)

 

In the higher ground of the Saskatoon lot is where the healthier, bigger leafed plants live.

All BIG & HAPPY plants are on high ground but NOT ALL HIGH Ground Plants are BIG & HAPPY.

Even the 'spares' I chucked in a hole near the gate are better off in their weeds than the low lying plants.

I will now prepare some berms; guessing 3 or 4 feet wide by a foot high.

Looked at a few blueberry farms to get ideas...???

 

At first, the waterlogged plants looked promising.

They tanked.

Hope this 'correction paper' helped.

 

Murph