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[tanis grif <tanisgrif@yahoo.com>]

Please excuse delay in reply.

A couple WI observations:

I know of a small commercial orchard or large backyard orchard whihch was 
sprayed w/
who-knows-what through the 1950s.  Then for about 20 years, the only 
management was
mowing & occasional harvests.  When mowing was stopped, black walnuts-- 
planted by
squirrels-- sprouted riotously.  The site is now a nice black walnut grove.

I see deer damage on black walnuts, i.e. browse of the seedlings and buck-rub 
on the
saplings.  The deer can't keep up w/ what the squirrels plant, but I think 
you want
to fence or wrap anything you value.



--- nbeaureg at student.umass.edu wrote:

> 
> 
> i work for a small (conventional) comercial apple, pear, peach orchard,
> and i am considering asking permission to plant nut trees in our
> least productive block (80 year old northern spy trees, neglected from
> 1960's-80's).
> 
> my concerns are two:
> are conventional apple sprays toxic to nut trees?
> and
> how apealing to deer are nut trees¿
> 
> ncb
> zone 5 MA
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