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

If you neglect for too long bad things will happen to them.  Tame
plants are creations of man.  Too much or not enough care, you have
to find the balance.  Sounds vague but growing good fruit is an art.

---- Original Message ----
From: gardendiva@charter.net
To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: RE: [NAFEX] Neglect Trees
Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2010 19:31:14 -0500

>I came across this snippet in the Aug. issue of The Avant Gardener.
>
>"Pampering plants can be bad for their health:  in tests at
>Pennsylvania 
>State University, apple trees stressed by withholding water and
>fertilizer 
>had less fireblight, and in general showed increased resistance to 
>diseases."
>
>I'm seeing this in my mini orchard, as I haven't done anything to it
>since 
>Feb. due to knee surgery and a broken shoulder.  The apples and Asian
>pears 
>are smaller than normal, because I didn't thin.  All are fireblight
>and 
>disease-free.  Coddling moths, however, did a lot of damage to the
>apples. 
>The Asian pears look to be damage-free.
>
>I picked two large baskets of Concord grapes yesterday from just one
>vine. 
>I've never had big a large crop, and the individual grapes were
>larger than 
>in previous years.
>
>Yup!  I've been working too hard.
>Doreen Howard
>IL-WI Border (Zone 4b) 
>
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