To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] price of food
Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2007 09:23:21 -0500
Michael asked, "Why is fruit hard to grow in Tennessee?"
Four answers to that: the climate, the bugs, the humidity, and the soil.
Does that leave anything in the favor of fruit growing? Well, most years we
get rain and we always get heat units. The trouble is that our heat units
are not very well organized. We get too many in the winter and spring,
fooling most fruit trees into blooming, and then whammo, we suddenly get a
chunk of cold air from the North Pole via Alberta and Minnesota, and that's
it for the year. Donna