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

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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