To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Illinois Everbearing
Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2007 15:36:07 -0500
Not enough berries this year, subsequent to the Easter Big Freeze
Disaster, to even warrant challenging the birds for them. IE trees
were in full bloom when the EBFD occurred, burning all leaves
off. They did re-leaf and re-bloom, though sparsely.
Production? My two trees are approximately 10-12 years old now,
planted 20 ft apart; canopies are continuous, they're easily 15+ ft
tall. A couple of years back my (now 13-yr old) daughter and I
spread plastic underneath them and shook(she was up in the
tree) Rapidly gathered about 3 gallons of fruit in short order - and
this was just one day during the typical 6-8 week bearing
period. Mine usually are in fruit from mid-June to the end of July.
Lucky Pittman
USDA Cold Zone 6
AHS Heat Zone 7
Hopkinsville, KY