Hello all,
What everyone thus far has said is relevant. Jon's rule-of-thumb of 0.9
x distance from row centre to row centre is good, but not a complete
answer. To get to the bottom of this very difficult question requires
information like light intensity (the more intensity the better the
canopy
A new issue of the Illinois Fruit and Vegetable News (Volume 17,
number 1) has been posted on the web. To reach the home page for the
Illinois Fruit and Vegetable News (with links to all issues and
additional resources), use the following link:
http://www.ipm.uiuc.edu/ifvn/index.html
For
A new issue of Scaffolds Fruit Newsletter for the week of 3/28 has been posted
and can be found at:
Regular pdf -
http://www.scaffolds.entomology.cornell.edu/2011/110328.pdf
ScaffoldsMD for mobile devices -
http://www.scaffolds.entomology.cornell.edu/2011/3.28MD.pdf
This issue includes the
Con, interestingly, we are at 43 degrees 32' north which is the same as
southern France and Northern Italy. Much different climate of course. We
still have up to 12 of snow in the orchard and it was in the 30sF today
with a stiff NW wind that made it feel colder. Still a good day for
pruning.
