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Lecture on growing Apricots in cold climates
yup. gotta be sneaky about where to plant apricots. Got one of those soulangiana
.... big flowered magnolia which does splendidly in Milwaukee with the lake moderating the temps, but get blasted 10 miles out in the burbs. everybody puts em out on their front lawn like they do in the city and rarely do they get flowers. I stuck mine in under some high trees where it wont get any good strong sun until later in spring and that puppy has bloomed every single year (surrounded by high fence to keep the damn deer away from it!) it is heavily mulched in there too. yeah.. that lower spot is colder most of the time. I had an amazing apricot from Starks with edible kernels... the first year it produced a bumper crop the squirrels got wise to the kernels inside and stripped the tree in 2 days ripping off all the spurs. I took a chain saw to it. No sense training the squirrels to rip all the unripe fruit off to look for edible kernels. the best place to plant apricots is on the north side of trees, buildings, fences that shade it until the sun reaches over them. and mulch them heavily to prevent the ground thawing too early. In Wisconsin some plants just dont do well in the full blast of the winter sun either. they dehydrate more than they would when they are shaded in winter. Ingrid "gregpresley" wrote: Apricots are an interesting fruit to grow. I inherited some dwarf variety in the yard of the house I'm living in. It blooms VERY early (usually the first week in April) long before our last expected killer frost. For the most part, I regard it as a great ornamental for its early bloom, and especially for forcing branches indoors. There are NEVER active bees during its blooming cycle, but it gets covered in butterflies, which are apparently enough to get some pollination done. Then 2 weeks after the bloom there is usually a terrible hard frost and I expect nothing. However, by early July, there are always about 12-25 fruits hidden under leaves ripening somewhere or other - very tasty - they will stay on the tree for about 3 weeks in a ripe state. Three houses over from me there is some other variety of apricot, in a lower, more protected spot. It blooms much later, is a full-sized tree, and is covered by many hundreds of apricots which ripen in early August. I am in Spokane, zone 5/6 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ List Manager: Puregold Goldfish List http://puregold.aquaria.net/ www.drsolo.com Solve the problem, dont waste energy finding who's to blame ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Unfortunately, I receive no money, gifts, discounts or other compensation for all the damn work I do, nor for any of the endorsements or recommendations I make. |
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