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["Lori Rizzo" <larizzo@charter.net>]

I am assuming this person has moved to southern or south-central Texas?  There is such a range of soils in Texas.  They should go on the TAMU extension web site – they have a lot of information about good varieties there.  I lived in College Station for 20 years – and rarely saw apples in the area.  A couple of pears – peaches & apricots do well in the hill country.  There is an organic nursery in Austin, TX that has wonderful native varieties that are well adapted – if you Google “the organic gardener, Austin, TX”, you will find the nursery’s website. One good thing is, you can grow pomegranates there.  Most people think you have a nice long growing season there, but what you have, in fact, is two short seasons, as the mid-summer will burn out most of your vegetables, etc. 

 

The other thing is, the soil in central Texas (College Station area), is pretty much clay.  I had to amend soil yearly, at least.

 

Lori Rizzo, RN BSN MBA

Health Care Quality Improvement

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Maryville, TN

larizzo@charter.net

 

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From: nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org [mailto:nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Toni Pralle
Sent: Sunday, May 10, 2009 3:39 PM
To: nafex
Subject: [NAFEX] zone 9 apple?

 

I have friends who relocated from zone 4 Iowa to zone 9 Texas. Needless to say, they've had quite a learning experience so far. I'm sure I've read on here before that there aren't many apples that would grow in Texas. Can anyone point me to some sources for Texas fruit trees?

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Toni in zone 4 Iowa USA
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