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["Erdman, James" <ErdmanJ@uwstout.edu>]

I did use the same potting soil from the same bags to start all of my garden plants  at the same time, and also grafted some pears and potted them, treated them just like the apples, but had no problems with the pears—probably should have mentioned that sooner, that I only had trouble with the apples.  Of course the rabbits did a job on the pears over the winter.

 

Jim

 

From: nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org [mailto:nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Donna &/or Kieran
Sent: Friday, April 25, 2008 9:32 AM
To: North American Fruit Explorers
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] grafting questions

 

"My potting soil came from Vermont Compost company (picked it up at the organic farming conference)."

 

Well I doubt that this story has anything to do with your trees or the Vermont Compost co, but it might save someone some trouble in future.  We used to live not too far from Monterrey Mushrooms over in the Tenn Valley.  Spent mushroom compost was cheap and very popular with gardeners.  One day visiting friends we were introduced to one of their friends who worked there.  He said don't get any of the compost this year, we've had a terrible problem with contamination, the wrong kind of mushrooms.  We deal with it by dosing the infected area with salt to kill them.  A few years later someone commented that nothing would grow where they'd spread the stuff.  Most years I think it was fine, but not knowing must have really hurt some people's gardens.      Donna