To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Disease resistant apples for Minnesota(NW Greening)
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2007 08:17:52 -0700 (PDT)
Nice link.
Does anyone grow NW Greening in z4? How does it handle the winters, and does
it
mature fruit OK?
--- dwoodard wrote:
> This is an interesting tabulation of resistance and susceptibility
> to several diseases for a number of mostly older apples grown by
> householders in Minnesota.
>
> I was interested to see a reminder of why Wolf River is a pretty good
> utility apple for zone 4 even if it's a bit on the bland side in
> flavour. In my limited experience the texture is quite nice when
> grown here in the Niagara Peninsula in Agriculture Canada zone 7a,
> near the northern limit of commercial peach growing.
>
> See
>
<http://www.extension.umn.edu/projects/yardandgarden/ygbriefs/p244apple-diseaseresistant.html>
>
> Doug Woodard
> St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada
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