North American Fruit Explorers mailing list at ibiblio

["Dr.O'Barr" <Topgun@Otelco.net>]

Apples, but may be short lived.

Topgun


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Donna &/or Kieran" <holycow@cookeville.com>
To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2008 10:06 AM
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Planting trees 2-3' apart


> When I started out, I spaced my trees 20' apart.  Fourteen years have 
> passed
> and I'm now planting 10-12 feet apart and would recommend this kind of
> spacing to NAFEXers, or even closer depending on how much you are
> experimenting.  I'm not the only NAFEXer to find that the trees I planted
> aren't what they were supposed to be, or the trees pine and die due to
> borers or whatever,or turn out to be unsuitable for the climate or the
> quality is not what I want.  My rule of thumb has been for many years, for
> every mature tree you've got to plant 3 trees.  How does the rhyme go for
> corn, "One for the something, one for the crow, one to die and one to 
> grow."
> So with trees, one for the borers, one one to cull, and one to grow.
>    Take for example, the mayhaws that I planted 8 ft apart for a hedge 
> like
> effect, very funny.  One died and was replace with a plum which is 
> cropping
> for the first time this year, at about 8 years old.  One died last year 
> and
> has a peach in it's place.  One was too close to a big beech and has never
> grown.  The other two spindly little trees cropped for the first time this
> year, at 13 years old, and we picked about a quart of fragrant rust
> distorted haws which I threw in a bucket of water to try to stop the rust
> from spreading to the cedars, and never got around to starting wine from
> them.  Is there something I can topgraft on mayhaws?     Donna
>
> _______________________________________________
> nafex mailing list
> nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
>
> Reproduction of list messages or archives is not allowed.
> This includes distribution on other email lists or reproduction on web 
> sites.
> Permission to reproduce is NEVER granted, so don't claim you have 
> permission!
>
> **YOU MUST BE SUBSCRIBED TO POST!**
> Posts from email addresses that are not subscribed are discarded.
> No exceptions.
> ----
> To subscribe or unsubscribe, go to the bottom of this page (also can be 
> used to change other email options):
> http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/nafex
>
> File attachments are NOT stripped by this list.
> TAKE STEPS TO PROTECT YOURSELF FROM COMPUTER VIRUSES!
> Please do not send binary files.
> Use plain text ONLY in emails!
>
> NAFEX web site:   http://www.nafex.org/