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  • From: "Dave Griffin" <griffingardens@earthlink.net>
  • To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Serviceberry growing very slowly
  • Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2011 22:07:58 -0500

Hi Dan,

My experience with serviceberries - alnifolia or Saskatoons mostly - has been that they are very slow to get established and that they don't like competition when young plants. Mine are about 6 years old planted in sod, are 4 ft tall, and are just now having their first good looking crop with more than only a few fruit to eat. I think you could shorten the time to maturity with a little more competition control of the day lilies.

Dave

----- Original Message ----- From: "Dan Nave" <nave1@comcast.net>
To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Friday, June 17, 2011 9:10 PM
Subject: [NAFEX] Serviceberry growing very slowly


I bought one of the Serviceberries from Gurneys last year and planted it in my garden. It said is was Shadbush Serviceberry, I believe.

It is growing but is still quite a tiny plant probably not more than a foot high in it's second year. It doesn't get a lot of direct sun because it's so damned small. I thought it would grow a lot faster and outgrow the day-lilies that grow around it...

Anyone have any suggestions?

Dan







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