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  • From: "William C. Garthright" <billg@inebraska.com>
  • To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Local Nursery Information's worth
  • Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2007 12:43:51 -0500


I don't know why people just assume that local nurseries have answers to everything. I have dealt with alot of them and quickly learned that the owners had no more qualification for their tasks than their love of working with plants


Yeah, I imagine you're right, although this guy was the person who supposedly knew about fruit tree problems. In other words, I asked the first person I encountered at the nursery, and they called him up to the front desk. Oh, well. As I say, I doubt if they get many questions about peach trees around here. I'd never even seen one until I planted these. :-)

I've found that the Internet has lots of information, and of course this NAFEX list is great, but it's really hard to get information locally,... and sometimes that's what I really need. The county extension office told me that the university hadn't replaced their fruit specialist, and their master gardeners were a bit dumbfounded by some of my questions (about pluots and apriums, intense backyard orchard cultivation, etc.). Well, maybe when I'm old and gray - er, older and grayer - I'll be the local expert, huh? Heh, heh. Not likely!

Bill
Lincoln, NE (zone 5)

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