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  • From: "JAMES ELIE" <tomelzear@earthlink.net>
  • To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Illinois Everbearing Mulberry zone 4 hardy?
  • Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2007 12:22:38 -0500

Sorry, about the error.. that Illinois Everbearing I picked up a few years
ago was from Burnt Ridge Nursery...


> [Original Message]
> From: mIEKAL aND <dtv@mwt.net>
> To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
> Date: 6/11/2007 9:44:33 AM
> Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Illinois Everbearing Mulberry zone 4 hardy?
>
> 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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