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- From: "Donna &/or Kieran" <holycow@cookeville.com>
- To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Tennessee damage
- Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2007 12:02:36 -0500
Richard:
"BTW, most of our fruit is on a southern slope at 1800'."
How low is the valley below? Is this the sort
of "Banana belt" as they call it in Oregon where you are up on a hillside and
the warm air rises to cover you while the cold stuff rolls down to the
valley below? I thought that our slope and stream leading to a large
lake would help protect us, but it seems that we are on the east side of
the lake so the cold stuff settles down and then creeps up our streambed.
That's what I suspect anyway, but it does sound like something protects your
spot.
Our gooseberries and currants look fine, as do the blackberries,
raspberries, figs, mulberries, juneberries (Amelanchier) in full bloom"
We have one gooseberry that I've never done much
for, maybe I should. I have heard that currants don't like heat and are
prone to disease here. If you say otherwise, I might want to invest in
some. Blackberries and elderberries look fine here too. Mulberries
wiped out in full bloom. Juneberries tend to produce crops of bright
orange rust here. Figs, they insist on freezing to the ground and then
never crop on new wood for us. I'm on my second one. Even the figs
we took to town, the one in a basement looks dead and the little one covered
with leaves between houses with trees overhead, it looks battered. The
secretary at work kept bringing in figs all through late summer last year, I may
have to go look at her yard and find where she fits in a topo map. I don't
know what the deal is on figs, they don't work for me.
I think that Lucky, a bit
further west and north, and Hector, 30 miles north, are reporting lower temps
than we had. Maybe you had slightly higher temps over there to the east so
far. Donna
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[NAFEX] freeze damage,
Jerrydana5, 04/05/2007
- <Possible follow-up(s)>
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Re: [NAFEX] Freeze Damage,
Richard Moyer, 04/09/2007
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Re: [NAFEX] Tennessee damage,
Donna &/or Kieran, 04/09/2007
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Re: [NAFEX] Tennessee damage,
Hal Love, 04/09/2007
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Re: [NAFEX] Tennessee damage,
S & E Hills, 04/09/2007
- Re: [NAFEX] Tennessee damage, Hal Love, 04/10/2007
- Re: [NAFEX] Tennessee damage, dmnorton, 04/10/2007
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Re: [NAFEX] Tennessee damage,
S & E Hills, 04/09/2007
- Re: [NAFEX] Tennessee damage, Mark & Helen Angermayer, 04/10/2007
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Re: [NAFEX] Tennessee damage,
Hal Love, 04/09/2007
- Re: [NAFEX] Freeze Damage, Brungardt, Sam, 04/09/2007
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Re: [NAFEX] Tennessee damage,
Donna &/or Kieran, 04/09/2007
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Re: [NAFEX] Freeze Damage,
Doc Lisenby, 04/10/2007
- Re: [NAFEX] Freeze Damage, dmnorton, 04/11/2007
- Re: [NAFEX] Freeze Damage, nottke1, 04/11/2007
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