Re: [nafex] no peaches this year :-(

I lost all the apricots, but mostly the late frost just decreased the amount of thinning I needed to do on the apples, pears, peaches, etc. I guess we got lucky or the site is a good one.

Anton
Zone 8-ish
RTP, NC


-----Original Message-----
>From: "V. Michael Bove, Jr." <vmb@teakettlefarm.com>
>Sent: Apr 28, 2016 11:08 AM
>To: "nafex@lists.ibiblio.org" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
>Subject: [nafex] no peaches this year :-(
>
>The seventies-then-below-zero weather we had in late winter here killed the flower buds on all six varieties of our peaches. Plums (myrobalan), apricots, apples, and pears all seem to be flowering more or less normally, but no idea yet about fruit set.
>
>Anyone else on the list get clobbered? We also lost the flower buds on our magnolia tree and forsythia bushes.
>
>Michael Bove
>Teakettle Farm, Z6 (MA/RI border)
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