Subject: [NAFEX] Subject: Re: Reliance peach tree- Peter
Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 20:11:12 -0500
<< I am having the exact same thing happening to my Reliance. Last
year I had a bumper crop on my tree (5 years since I planted it).<<
Yup. 5 years.Surely they last longer than that! Those came from
Gurneys/henry fields. Where did you get yours?
<<This year it has about 12 blooms on the bottom branch with a few
leaves; the rest of the tree looks dead. <<
I don't even have that. I'm going to let it go for a while longer.
What are you going to do? Do you suppose it would do any good to prune
the branches back to 6 inches or so?
<<<However,
during the previous winter (2007/2008) there was so much snow that
it broke a main lateral leaving a huge crack - this
no doubt did not help matters.>>
I have finally figured out how to beat the rabbits. Shhhhh!!! I put a
woven type of snow fence around all my trees last fall. I thought it
would be some protection from the wind, too. I have the new Reliance
from Gurney's/henry fields planted and also the two nicer trees from
Van Wells. I keep throwing money down a rat hole! Remember that movie,
The Money Pit? I feel like I'm living it.
--
Toni in zone 4 Iowa USA
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[NAFEX] Subject: Re: Reliance peach tree- Peter,
Toni Pralle, 05/18/2009