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["Scott Williamson" <ScottW@acespower.com>]

I am only about 20 minutes from Dan and it's my understanding from reading that the native hazelnuts do carry a blight that affects most hazenut varieties.  I've not experienced the blight myself (in my not so extensive 2 years of growing hazelnuts), but if you're going to grow those it might be worth looking at blight resitant varieties.

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From: nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org [mailto:nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of ethan roland
Sent: Monday, March 19, 2007 10:57 AM
To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Pears, peaches, and other fruits for Central Indiana.

Dan - 

I'd also recommend stepping a bit outside the 
conventional bounds of 'orchard' and planting some hardy kiwi vines, chestnuts, 
and hazelnuts. There's a good chance these will grow with little pest or disease 
pressure -- though I am admittedly inexperienced with your specific climatic 
conditions + pest/disease complex. 

Asian pears and american persimmons 
sound like a great bet -- some of the hardier mulberries (e.g. 'Illinois 
Everbearing') might also be worth a try. And Pawpaws! you could plant seedlings 
of the hardier varieties and aim for some Indiana-adapted trees. 

And how 
about berries?!? Currant, gooseberry, jostaberry would be great for a 
partial-shade understory, and silverberry (Hippophae spp.) or goumi (Eleagnus 
multiflora) would be soil-improving nitrogen-fixing berry producers as well. Lee 
Reich's "Uncommon Fruits for every garden" would be a good place to check out 
some varieties and basic growing info for these plants. I did some design work 
for a client last year that was creating a fruit, berry, and nut CSA -- they had 
chosen all these fruits/nuts, and more! 

Good luck into 
spring

Ethan





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