Re: [nafex] Example of stonefruits nut trees thriving in high-water, acidic soi

For what it's worth:

When I first moved here, there were some naturalized daffodils growing in a wet spot where I was about to have some tile line put through. I dug some of them up, and, under the impression that if they were in a wet spot that must be what they liked, moved them to another wet spot on the property (neither spot is wet all year, but both are sodden for significant parts of every year, and shallow soil over rock outcrops). They naturalized on the new spot, and survived in the old one, and I now have daffodils coming up wild in both areas every spring (they've never gotten any further care.)

Years later, I read that daffodils must have well drained soil.

For that matter, I've grown a whole lot of quality vegetables on what's not supposed to be good vegetable ground; and some very nice-flavored peaches and plums on what's not supposed to be good stone fruit ground. The trees were short lived, but that probably is due partly to climate and partly to my not having taken very good care of them.

-- I suspect that some of these things are cultivar/root stock dependent; and also that at least some cultivars of most plants will do reasonably well in conditions that are less than theoretically ideal for them.

The Extension and similar recommendations also tend to be for highest crop production, which is not necessarily the same as for best flavor, best insect resistance, etc. Are you intending to grow commercially? If so, are your markets likely to be willing to pay extra for flavor, or are they likely to only be interested in tonnage?

(I seem to have moved from trying to talk you out of this place into trying to talk you into it. But on your further description it's neither as acidic nor as wet as I first thought you were describing.)


-- Rivka; Finger Lakes NY, Zone 6A now I think
Fresh-market organic produce, small scale




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