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["TIM INMAN" <TIM@HISTORICINTERIORS.COM>]

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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>   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
> To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
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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
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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.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org
> [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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