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Subject: Re: [nafex] Scientists are creating half-sized peach trees to make picking fruit easier (Modern Farmer)
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2014 10:59:49 -0400
Dwarf fruit trees are a new idea?
And here I thought that bright idea was older than I am. (And I am getting up
there.)
The specific varieties might be new; and/or getting specifically peaches down
to the size they want might be new, I suppose; but the article is very odd in
that it seems to think that the whole idea is new.
-- Rivka; Finger Lakes NY, Zone 6A now I think
Fresh-market organic produce, small scale
On Aug 19, 2014, at 10:46 AM, Brungardt, Sam (MPCA) wrote:
> Modern Farmer
> Peach breeders at the University of California, Davis are experimenting
> with a new way to make fruit farming safer: shrink the size of the trees.