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["Ernest Plutko" <ernestplutko@wiktel.com>]

Supposedly

---- Original Message ----
From: naomi@oznayim.us
To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] 'Bubblegum' plums?
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 21:29:25 -0700

>
>But in Zone 2 you can raise popsicles
>Naomi
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org
>[mailto:nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Ernest Plutko
>Sent: Friday, March 12, 2010 9:20 PM
>To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
>Subject: Re: [NAFEX] 'Bubblegum' plums?
>
>I'm in zone 2 and Toka barely makes it.  I have two trees and they
>both die back a lot in winter.  Plums are sparse and sour.  In warmer
>climate Toka is probably very good.  My son lives 250 miles south of
>me and I believe he has Toka.  I never asked him how they taste.  But
>I will.  I live in a bad place to raise tree fruit.  Some apples
>varieties do well (but not the good ones) but plums and cherries are
>very marginal.  Zone hardiness quoted by many nurseries are wildly
>optimistic and I consider them to be fiction.
>
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