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["Mark & Helen Angermayer" <hangermayer@isp.com>]

Hi Dylan,

You may recall last summer Nate T. had some nice pictures of fruit bagging.
He used ladies footies and as I recall had good success.  I bagged a few
fruits with footies last summer as well.  I had good success with peaches.
Since peaches have such a short stem, I tied the footie around the branch
and had no insect or rot damage with bagged fruit.  Some of the plums and
pears I bagged had insect damage but it was a lot less than unbagged fruits,
which had 100% damage.  I think the insects that attacked the bagged pears
and plums got in through the stem.  I was afraid of knocking the fruits off
the tree so I left the bags pretty loose around the stems.  This year I may
tie the bags around the branch on all the fruits.  If interested here is a
link for footies $4.50 for 144 plus tax and shipping.  As I recall minimum
shipping was about $10.00.
http://store.storesupply.com/webapp/commerce/servlet/ProductDisplay?prrfnbr=158501&prmenbr=631&merchant_rn=631

Mark Angermayer
Zone 5 Kansas
Coldest it got here this winter was 1degree F.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dylan Ford" <>
To: <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2007 8:05 PM
Subject: [NAFEX] Fruit Bagging


> Folks -
>
>     The early part of this post is a few observations about my
peach-bagging
> experiences last season. If you aren't interested in that - but are
> interested in bagging your fruit, just read the last paragraph.
>
>     I decided to try bagging peaches last Spring with what was easily
> available to me: zip-lock sandwich bags. The local supermarket has a
damaged
> package rack, where things are sold at reduced prices. All winter I
checked
> this rack, and whenever I found a damaged box of zip-locks I would buy it.
I
> have four peach trees, three volunteers from the compost pile and one a
> purple-leafed seedling a friend gave me, as well as two younger compost
> nectarines. The peaches aren't planted in the best spot, but they do set
> fruit which gets completely ruined by curculio et al and then often become
> moldy blobs. As I thinned the fruit last spring, I bagged the keepers
> (hundreds), often more than one to a bag where the fruits were close.
(After
> nipping the lower corners off the bags with a razorblade for drainage,
air).
>
>     The peach trees set different types of blossoms. Two peaches - the red
> leaf and one green - set very showy, large pinky-purple flowers
reminiscent
> of azaleas, while the other two make smaller drab-pink blossoms. I think I
> may have heard that the flower type may relate to clingstone-freestone, if
> so I'm sure one of the experts on-list will say. The nectarines both
present
> the showier type. There seemed to be a higher fast-failure rate among the
> showy flowered peaches though I thinned all trees heavily, but as time
went
> on they actually outlasted the smaller drabs. All of the peaches and both
of
> the
> nectarines got and stayed wet, and all eventually rotted in the bag,
though
> some of them lasted intact until they were in sight of the finish-line.
>
>     I was wishing out loud that I had access to cloth bags, when my fiance
> (who is a lighting designer) commented that in her business they often
> shipped fixtures with the necessary accompanying hardware in attached
cloth
> drawstring bags. I had her research a source for me and she found one that
> actually is having an overstock sale on 4" x 6" drawstring cotton bags, 9
> cents each, 200 bag minimum, + tax and shipping. A bit roomy perhaps, but
> the price is nice. The web address is below.
>
> http://www.uline.com/browse_listing_202.asp?besc=cloth+parts+bags
>
> Seems like a pretty good deal, if they do the trick, as I suspect they
would
> be reusable.   dylan
>
>
> Dylan Ford is the author of the proposal at www.ideaforpresident.com , a
> website devoted to an idea that could provide an avenue to address
pollution
> issues, food safety, social justice, prison reform and healthcare.
>
>
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