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["Toni Pralle" <toni.pralle@gmail.com>]

<<I once wrapped a couple of rabbit damaged trees for someone in England, just
wrapped them with rags.  ....but because SOMETHING
is better than nothing.  .... If not, I
guess the undamaged 3 ft will be there for future growth.>>

 

That was my thought, too. And a three foot tree will be easy to pick ;-)

   >>>Apple trees seem to be the hardest of all here, I hope that this, the
15th year since I started planting them, that they will make a crop.  Boron
seems to be the secret to get the trees to grow here.  WHY the Ag bulletins
for the south and all the books and magazine articles don't say add boron if
you are on red clay, I just don't know.  >>

 

Is it Gurney's or Field's (same thing) that recommends fertilizing with their "special" fertilizer in the spring. I bought enough bags to do all the fruit trees. Now, define spring. When do I apply it? It's raining and raining and raining here. I have a pond on one side of the drive and a river with a lake behind the machine shed. My geese are in 7th heaven. Temps are 40/50 most of the time. Lows will be below 32 midweek. I think it's the Gardens Alive catalog that showed me I needed boron for my strawberries. Stands to reason if they need it, it's deficient here.

I thought gardening was supposed to be fun! Or was that relaxing?



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Toni in zone 4 Iowa USA
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