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Old 25-02-2017, 02:14 PM posted to rec.gardens.edible
Terry Coombs Terry Coombs is offline
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Default Too early , wayyyyy too early

Ecnerwal wrote:
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"Terry Coombs" wrote:

My Red Haven peach tree is already making flowers ... last frost
here is not for another 6 weeks , looks like I'll be keeping a close
eye on the thermometer . The trees all have a (concrete reinforcing)
wire cage around them , I can wrap with a tarp if it's going to
freeze . PITA , but I'd sure like to get some peaches this year .


Welcome to the new, ugly, hard to grow food in reality.

All our fruit blossoms got whacked last year, so no tree fruits. Today
it was 68F and our last frost date is mid to late May. Looking pretty
dubious for this year if this foolishness keeps up.

If you can set up to mist the flower buds, it helps - basically
mist/fog when it's getting cold and through the night - so long as
new water is freezing on the outside of the icicle, it stays at
32F/OC which is often warm enough to save the flowerbuds. Blatantly
swiped from citrus growers way down south, but it saved my
blueberries one year.


It's 27° outside as I type this . Maybe , just maybe because they're not
fully bloomed out some will survive . I was going to have to thin them
anyway ...
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