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  • From: Michael Nave <jmichaelnave@yahoo.com>
  • To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] price of food
  • Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2007 18:07:09 -0700 (PDT)

Why is fruit hard to grow in Tennessee?


--- Donna &/or Kieran <holycow@cookeville.com> wrote:

> >The 12" of rain we got in 4 days ruined most our
> garden. (Kansas)
>
> Yes Mark, all of us east and south of you could have
> used some of that rain
> and the stuff Texas got, and I'm sure you all would
> have been glad to let us
> have it. It's the weak jetstream, not blowing the
> weather east like it
> should. Agricultural production will be a fraction
> of normal (maybe half?
> Surely not over 2/3) in 2007 for the entire
> southeast, and I assume that
> excess rain is adversely affecting crops in those
> middle states that are
> getting all our rain.
> As for the price of food, yes, fruit is very
> easy to grow in quantity in
> those places where it is easy to grow. Has fruit
> growing been cost
> effective for me here where fruit is NOT easy to
> grow? Not at all!!! But I
> keep working at it, looking for what does well here.
> I have been a fruit
> "scrounger" for the nearly 25 years I've spent in
> Tennessee, and THAT has
> been very good for our food bills over the years,
> esp when the kids were
> growing up. The fact that I have been able to get
> fruit from trees planted
> years ago means that if you can find the right
> fruits, the right varieties,
> the right rootstocks, the right location, the right
> soil, and get them well
> established, they can be very productive.
>



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