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  • From: tanis grif <tanisgrif@yahoo.com>
  • To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Damage(weather matters)
  • Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2007 07:23:21 -0700 (PDT)

Fortunately here (s.WI) the case seems to be more like Jim F in MN-- very few
things
leafed out. Of fruit trees only pears & plums w/ swollen buds. Wild
gooseberries &
red elderberry were leafing out out.

Speaking of drought, someone previously posted a statement about the Dust
Bowl being
caused by over-use of chemical ag. Biggest cause was drought. That, and
decades of
plowing up sod and over-grazing what wasn't plowed, in a region which went a
few
decades without its normal bad droughts (which would have slowed the
expansion of
ag). Not enough fence/hedge rows either, so harsh cmemical fertilizers &
pesticides
were a relatively minor problem.

>From an older fellow who was trying to farm in WI in those years: "The first
>year
without rain was bad, the second year was worse, and the third spring the
trees
didn't leaf out. And it was hot..."


--- Donna &/or Kieran <> wrote:

> ....As for Jim Fruth's comments, Jim, we too have wise plants with long
> chilling
> hour requirements. Alas, between January where we could sit around in short
> sleeves and shorts outside in the evenings, and March where we were
> sweating in
> the heat, this was an ambush. As for Richard Moyer's comments about
> welcoming
> this as a test to remove the pantywaist plants that can't make it in
> Tennessee,
> does he plan to remove everything except cedars, pines, and blackberries?
> Sorry
> Richard, but this was not your normal late spring freeze. This was a
> disaster for
> all life for the entire southeastern US. I've been thinking about it.
> Hailstorns
> only devastate small areas. Even hurricanes only cut a swath a mile or so
> wide.
> Earthquakes tend not to disrupt plants all that much. And alas, if the 22
> year
> drought cycle holds, the bad weather is only beginning... Donna
> _______________________________________________





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