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  • From: Road's End Farm <organic87@frontiernet.net>
  • To: mailing list at ibiblio - Northamerican Allied Fruit Experimenters <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [nafex] Example of stonefruits nut trees thriving in high-water, acidic soi
  • Date: Sun, 8 Jan 2017 17:03:27 -0500

For what it's worth:

When I first moved here, there were some naturalized daffodils growing in a
wet spot where I was about to have some tile line put through. I dug some of
them up, and, under the impression that if they were in a wet spot that must
be what they liked, moved them to another wet spot on the property (neither
spot is wet all year, but both are sodden for significant parts of every
year, and shallow soil over rock outcrops). They naturalized on the new spot,
and survived in the old one, and I now have daffodils coming up wild in both
areas every spring (they've never gotten any further care.)

Years later, I read that daffodils must have well drained soil.

For that matter, I've grown a whole lot of quality vegetables on what's not
supposed to be good vegetable ground; and some very nice-flavored peaches and
plums on what's not supposed to be good stone fruit ground. The trees were
short lived, but that probably is due partly to climate and partly to my not
having taken very good care of them.

-- I suspect that some of these things are cultivar/root stock dependent; and
also that at least some cultivars of most plants will do reasonably well in
conditions that are less than theoretically ideal for them.

The Extension and similar recommendations also tend to be for highest crop
production, which is not necessarily the same as for best flavor, best insect
resistance, etc. Are you intending to grow commercially? If so, are your
markets likely to be willing to pay extra for flavor, or are they likely to
only be interested in tonnage?

(I seem to have moved from trying to talk you out of this place into trying
to talk you into it. But on your further description it's neither as acidic
nor as wet as I first thought you were describing.)


-- Rivka; Finger Lakes NY, Zone 6A now I think
Fresh-market organic produce, small scale








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