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[david liezen <chandos49@hotmail.com>]

 I agree with Ernest. For example, my folks obsessed over their newly seeded lawn and watered way too much - fungus and drowning, in Spokane! I'm hardly the expert in handling trees and berries, but the greenlife out back is teaching me, a year at a time.
 Now that the blueberries are fenced away from the ducks they are no longer being nibbled on daily; finally putting on some size. I may get a crop from the Jersey next year.
 And, thanks to an earlier communiqúe, I will trim the black currant I'd put in full sun and plant a slip by the east facing wall.
 Perhaps someday I can attain some modest claim to art in my back yard husbandry. Art and fruit: worthy goals.
              Dave Liezen, Spokane, z6
> From: ernestplutko@wiktel.com
> To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2010 20:40:30 -0500
> Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Neglect Trees
>
> 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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