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  • From: "Ernest Plutko" <ernestplutko@wiktel.com>
  • To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Miracle Fruit Harvest
  • Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2010 15:50:44 -0500

Maybe you should listen to your plants. You may have been doing too
much to them in the past.

---- Original Message ----
From: gardendiva@charter.net
To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: RE: [NAFEX] Miracle Fruit Harvest
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2010 20:15:26 -0500

>2010 has been a health disaster for me. A knee replacement in March
>that
>infected. More surgery in April to clean up the wound, and then I
>slipped
>and fell and broke my left shoulder a week later. Of course, I'm
>left
>handed.
>
>Needless-to-say, I didn't do anything in my yard. I had to hire a
>lawn
>service to mow my acre. No pruning, no spraying, no fertilizer, no
>bagging,
>nothing. Not being able to even walk at times, I mentally wrote off
>2010
>for fruit.
>
>I now have the largest crop and biggest fruit ever on the Seedless
>Concord
>and Swenson's Red grapes, and Chippewa, Maine Wild and Patriot
>blueberries.
>The berries are ripening and delicious. Grapes are starting to
>color, and
>they are huge and disease-free! Asian pears, Honeycrisp, Ashmead's
>Kernel,
>Pixie Crunch, Golden Delicious, Sops of Wine and Wealthy apple trees
>are
>loaded with fruit, have self-pruned by dropping and have no visable
>disease!
>I'm astonished!!
>
>Maybe, I've been working too hard. I think it has more to do with
>that my
>soil is finally totally engulfed with mycorrhizal fungi and other
>beneficial
>microbes. I inoculated everything I planted five years ago, but I
>planted
>with plenty of space in between. It may be that soil food web has
>finally
>matured and is doing its job. Next year, I'll go back to my usual
>routine
>and see what happens.
>
>Meanwhile, I'm very grateful for all the wonderful fruit and that I
>finally
>can work a bit in the garden.
>Doreen Howard
>Roscoe, IL
>Zone 4b (WI-IL border)
>
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