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Subject: Re: [nafex] [nafex ibiblio list] Blake's Pride pear
Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2012 13:39:08 -0600
I'm curious too. I'm still waiting to hear anyone talk about their first
into, what was that, Potomac? I figure that unless I find people raving or
complaining about it, it's a slow and shy cropper. Haven't looked around on
the Net for mentions of Potomac in 2 years, so maybe by now some are
cropping.
Just did a search, 10 google pages, that's 100 sites that are either
selling it or recommending it, but only one mentions her tree, which is
standard sized, too big to thin so it has become a biennial bearer. Barbara
Pleasant, somewhere 2 hrs drive from Edible Landscaping, uses milk spray to
suppress brown rot on plums and grapes. I take it that though she's a
master gardener, she's not a Nafexer or she wouldn't have referred to the
grape disease as brown rot. Donna