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  • From: mIEKAL aND <dtv@mwt.net>
  • To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Illinois Everbearing Mulberry zone 4 hardy?
  • Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2007 09:46:48 -0500

Lucky & Hector. Thanks for your prompting. Sounds like it's time for me to get another one to see if I (or mother nature) can kill it.

~mIEKAL


On Jun 11, 2007, at 9:41 AM, Lucky Pittman wrote:

At 09:04 AM 6/11/2007, mIEKAL wrote:
Hector: I'm curious if you think Ill Everbearing is a zone 4 tree?
If it gets damaged by late freezes down there...

mIEKAL,
The 'Easter Big Freeze Disaster' we experienced down here this year
was a really freak occurrence - and I hope we never see a repeat
performance. Not at all typical of spring frosts/freezes - even the
native oaks, hickories, mulberries - and even butternuts, which are
supposed to be zone 2 hardy - were severely damaged.
We'd had several weeks of unseasonably warm weather in March - with
daytime temps into the 80s the last week or so of March, followed by
4-5 consecutive nights of temps into the low 20s.
Almost the only deciduous trees that weren't significantly damaged
were the black walnuts, which were still fully dormant.

Is IE zone 4 hardy? I don't know, but here in hot zone 6, it is as
Hector described - a heavy producer of large, exceptionally tasty
berries, and mine typically fruits from mid-June through t he end of July.




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