To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Planting Peach Pits
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 09:20:31 -0800
It's easier to let the squirrels plant the nuts, though they won't put
them in neat rows. I have walnuts and filberts coming up all over the
yard and also in small pots, all planted by absent-minded squirrels.
You could just leave a pile of nuts in one corner of the field, and
let them go to it.
More on topic: I bottle a lot of apricots and peaches each year and
dump the pits in the vegetable garden. I get germination from
peaches, though not a high % considering the number of seeds. I don't
get any apricots.
Diane Whitehead
Victoria, B.C., Canada
On 31-Jan-08, at 8:05 AM, Jim Fruth wrote:
There is a technique for planting nuts that the squirrels can't
dig up.