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  • From: "TIM INMAN" <TIM@HISTORICINTERIORS.COM>
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  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] nafex Digest, Vol 44, Issue 43
  • Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2006 13:33:22 -0500

I hope I'm doing this correctly. I'm wanting to respond to message 2 about squirrels.

I have had great results keeping squirrels out of my peach trees by using common 'Tree Tanglefoot' sticky wax. When the peaches begin to turn color - which is exactly when my squirrels begin to get interested - I go on the attack with sticky wax. I paint it about 30 to 36 inches above ground all around the trunk and the first low branches. I go that high so they won't be able to just jump over it. My observation is that when they get one paw full of this sticky stuff, they immediately loose interest in going any farther with my peaches. Keeps 'em out for the duration of the ripening season for me. I suggested this to one of our local commercial orchards and they tell me it is working for them, too. I'm guessing that it wouldn't be necessary to treat every tree in the orchard if you have a lot of trees. I think it is nasty enough stuff that 'any' contact would be too much contact for them. I like it because it is completely harmless to the animals. Just nasty to deal with. Serves 'em right. I get peaches and they get to clean off their sticky little paws. Works on cherries, too.

Tim Inman
Randolph, Ia 51649 Zone 4

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Today's Topics:

1. Re: Selling pawpaws (mangodance)
2. Re: Squirrels (W3cmp@aol.com)
3. Re: Lingonberries (Brungardt, Sam)
4. Re: Selling pawpaws (Lucky Pittman)
5. Re: Squirrels & deer (mangodance)
6. Re: Squirrels & deer (Lucky Pittman)


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Message: 1
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2006 10:42:22 -0400
From: mangodance <bmn@iglou.com>
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Selling pawpaws
To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
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Hal Love wrote:

Our pawpaw crop is probably the worst ever. Wild pawpaws are probably
the most common understory plant around here, and usually start to drop
abundant fruit about this time each year. This year, I have seen one
single fruit among hundreds of trees along our road. Usually, the fruits
drop onto the pavement and splat, often covering sections of road with
pawpaw mush. I noticed large numbers of flowers on the trees this past
spring, so there must have been a problem with pollinators. Anyone else
notice a lack of pawpaws?

Pawpaws are notoriously poor pollinators. However, with a little help
from growers, they will bear in good numbers. Siting of plants also
will have an impact. Wild pawpaws are an understory tree and typically
will not fruit as well as those grown out in the sunlight (like most
orchard trees).



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Message: 2
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2006 10:51:43 EDT
From: W3cmp@aol.com
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Squirrels
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Hello all:
Squirrels are one of the biggest pains ever invented. I fight a
constant battle against them every year. Despite a resident hawk who takes care of
several every year, I end up using a have a heart trap to capture them (peanut
butter bait), and a bb gun to dispose of them. I put them down nearby ground
hog holes to try to encourage the resident groundhogs to relocate, preferably
away from t he woods that border my orchard. Squirrels can strip a peach or
apple tree in a couple days. They seem to prefer the peaches after skin color
changes but before the peaches are ripe. They like sweeter apple varieties
like gala early in the apple ripening cycle, but will go after just about
anything.
I originally tried to relocate the squirrels but was cautioned against
doing that-they can travel several miles back to their "home", i.e., my
orchard, and moving them just causes someone else a problem.
I put groundhogs, possums, skunks and raccoons in the same category as
squirrels. It's a never ending battle to keep them from butchering up fruit as
well.

Chris Patterson Zone 6 SE
Pa.



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Message: 3
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2006 10:18:45 -0500
From: "Brungardt, Sam" <Sam.Brungardt@state.mn.us>
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Lingonberries
To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
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Jim, I don't know any lingonberry growers, but I'll bet you could find
some if you contacted the folks at the Horticulture Dept. at the Univ.
of Wisconsin-Madison. Prof. Eldon Stang worked on this crop for a
number of years. He may be retired now, but there is probably an
extension fruit specialist who would know the growers in Wisconsin and
maybe Minnesota. -- Sam Brungardt, St. Paul, Minn.

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[mailto:nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Jim Fruth
Sent: Monday, September 25, 2006 8:59 AM
To: NAFEX
Subject: [NAFEX] Lingonberries


Does anyone grow Lingonberries to sell or know of a business that
wholesales Lingonberry Jam?

I tried growing them and failed. I'll try again but would prefer if
I could buy from someone else.

Jim Fruth
Brambleberry Farm
Pequot Lakes, MN 56472
www.bberryfarm.com
(218)568-8483 [Store]
(218)831-7018 [My Cell]
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Message: 4
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2006 10:28:35 -0500
From: Lucky Pittman <lucky.pittman@murraystate.edu>
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Selling pawpaws
To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
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Hal Love wrote:

> Our pawpaw crop is probably the worst ever.
This year, I have seen one single fruit among hundreds of trees
along our road.

Same here. I've yet to see a single fruit on any A.triloba anywhere
in the county.
Little grafted A.parviflora in the orchard had its typical good crop,
but none on any of the 'wild' pawpaws anywhere I've looked.

Lucky Pittman
USDA Cold Zone 6
AHS Heat Zone 7
Hopkinsville, KY



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Message: 5
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2006 11:30:00 -0400
From: mangodance <bmn@iglou.com>
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Squirrels & deer
To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
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For those of you who cull them, but don't eat them, don't overlook local
wildlife rehab facilities that rehab hawks, eagles, owls, etc. A friend
once spent 3 months culling them from his orchard and freezing them. A
local rehabber was happy to get the feed.

BTW, many rehabbers and sanctuaries also are in need of deer meat.



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Message: 6
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2006 10:46:09 -0500
From: Lucky Pittman <lucky.pittman@murraystate.edu>
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Squirrels & deer
To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
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At 10:30 AM 9/25/2006, Barry wrote:
For those of you who cull them, but don't eat them, don't overlook local
wildlife rehab facilities that rehab hawks, eagles, owls, etc. A friend
once spent 3 months culling them from his orchard and freezing them. A
local rehabber was happy to get the feed.

Good point.
We ran a raptor rehab center here at the lab for years, and I was
always on the lookout for roadkill squirrels, rabbits, and even small
opossums, to be fed to the birds. Stopping to pick up roadkill
critters mortified my kids even more than my leaf-hauling forays
throughout the fall.

Lucky



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