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  • From: Stefan Brandle <sbrandle@css.taylor.edu>
  • To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [NAFEX] They are predicting lows of 21 F for Friday night and Saturday night
  • Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2007 10:47:12 -0400

21 F two nights in a row. Oh, dear. This is getting worse. Woe is me. Or to be more precise, woe is those of my plants that have fallen for the fickle promises of temporarily warm weather. I can spray, cover, etc. a plant or two, but I guess this is where I have to wish the majority of the early-blooming plants good luck. Leaves come back fairly easily, but blooms don't. Fortunately, only a few have actual flowers open, but we'll have to see how it goes.

Four or five years ago we had a very late (May 19, 20, 21, or so) set of hard freezes. Right after that, I got my first fireblight outbreak. All three older apple trees and the two bartlett pears got nailed. I kept cutting chunks out of the pear trees and beat fireblight on one, but lost the other completely. The 15-20 foot apple trees were so badly covered that I didn't even try dealing with the problem. They all shook it off, leaving a number of dead twigs, including the fireblight-susceptible jonathan. I guess that it's better to get the freezes now than a month and a half from now.

-- sb







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