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["Jim Fruth" <jimfruth@charter.net>]

   In all my years of buying fresh peaches, I only had one peach pit grow, 
until one  year when I got many.  I had always bought grocery store peaches 
that were grown in a warm climate, California, Georgia, etc.  When the local 
Lions Club was selling Michigan grown peaches, I planted that seed and 10% 
of the pits grew.
   My policy for planting pits is to plant them in the Fall so they freeze 
when the ground freezes.  I've learned that if the pit doesn't freeze, the 
tree won't tolerate the freezing temperatures either.
   Raising peaches here in zone 3 has to be a labor of love because I only 
get fruit when the Winter temperature doesn't drop below -25 F, a condition 
that occurs infrequently.  I get fruit once every 5 to 10 years.

Jim Fruth