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[Lee Reich <lreich@hvc.rr.com>]

I have grown Nanking cherries for decades in 3 different states (NY, MD, and DE) and have watched them grow unfettered in WI. My advice is to ignore any disease problems. Or, if you must, cut off diseased branches. Or, if a plant dies (very rare), just replant another one -- they grow and bear quickly. The beauty of this bush, besides its physical beauty, is that you can grow it and harvest plenty of fruit without doing anything! You do need two different clones for cross-pollination, though.

Lee Reich, PhD

http://www.leereich.com/

Books by Lee Reich:

A Northeast Gardener's Year

The Pruning Book

Weedless Gardening

Uncommon Fruits for Every Garden

Landscaping with Fruit

On Mar 29, 2009, at 9:48 PM, Karen Kellogg wrote:

I plant the things and then hope hope for the best; they are for me  
only, and I don't do much spraying.  I've had good crops from my  
Apricot (Sungold, or moongold. not sure) and nanking cherries-- but  
first the cherries and now the apricots seem to have shoot die back,  
and the apricots also seem to have what I think is shot hole  
disease.  One would have me spraying Copper at leaf fall, the other I  
forget the possible cure.

Does anyone have trees that have survived these and continued to  
produce without extensive spraying of various things?

I think I'll plant more blueberries.....

Karen
zone 5 in NW Connecticut

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