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["Mark & Helen Angermayer" <hangermayer@isp.com>]

Jerry,

Some time back Pomona had an article about a guy growing peaches up north.
He used little temporary housing for his peach trees in the wintertime.  He
would then wreck them out in the spring.  Built them out of pallets or
something real cheap.  He was experimenting with heating them with candles
and other various low cost methods of heating.  Just have to keep them
warmer than -10F.  Thought this was a pretty ingenious way to do it.

Mark
KS


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "waayupnorth" <>
To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Saturday, December 29, 2007 11:51 AM
Subject: [NAFEX] growing fruit trees close to the ground


> I've heard that in Morden, Manitoba there was a fellow who trained a peach
tree so its branches were close to the ground, so that he could cover the
entire tree with raked leaves for winter protection; and that he would share
his peach crop with folks at the Morden Experiment Station.
>
> And I've read quite a while ago that in Siberia or in that general part of
the world someone was growing apple trees in a similar fashion.  Not sure if
they covered the trees too or if they just let Mother Nature cover them with
snow.
>
> Does anyone have any further information about growing fruit trees close
to the ground, to help with winter protection?
>
> Jerry
> NW Minnesota
> Z3a
>
>
>
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