To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] It works for me
Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 19:06:30 -0800
Bernie,
Obviously you and your friends aren't eating enough cherries.
You should order a few big boxes from the Okanagan next summer and
have a cherry party. You could even avoid the need of sowing the
seeds by having a cherry pit spitting contest in the area you plan to
devote to this experiment.
I am doing the same thing with apricots. The commercial varieties
don't like our cool maritime climate, but I'm sure I'll find one that
does. I throw out all the pits when I'm bottling fruit, but so far
it looks like the apricots don't even want to come up. All the trees
in the compost area are peaches.
--
Diane Whitehead Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
maritime zone 8
cool mediterranean climate (dry summer, rainy winter - 68 cm annually)
sandy soil