If you are interested in data from a backyard gardener in a suburb about 10 miles west of Boston...
Lots of winter damage to the ornamentals, but the fruits look good. Unusually, the crab-apples may have been damaged more than the eating apples, which bloom a little later. My Jonathan was nicely covered in blooms. I had more deer and rabbit damage to the apples than weather damage. Strawberries and raspberries are looking good. A young apricot and a young dwarf cherry (spring 2011, Carmine Jewel, from U Saskatchewan) bloomed for the first time. To my surprise, the cherry set abundant fruit. Ginda On May 18, 2014, at 12:58 PM, Win Cowgill wrote: > Hello Apple Croppers- > > This winter was a tough one for growers in New England, New York and the Mid > Atlantic (New Jersey). > I am wondering what the apple crop potential is in your states, provinces, > countries this season? > > How was your bloom? Good pollination? Winter injury to trees. > > I know growers in Virginia had winter injury to apple tree trunks. > Massachusetts and Vermont light on bloom? How did Western New York fair? > > How did my friends in Quebec make out? > > Look foreword to your responses. > > Best > > Win > > > > > Win Cowgill > Apple-Crop Co-Founder > Editor Horticultural News > Professor and Area Fruit Agent > New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station > Rutgers Cooperative Extension > PO Box 2900 > 314 State Route 12, Bldg. 2 > Flemington, NJ 08822-2900provinces > Office 908-788-1339 > Fax- 908-806-4735 > Email: [email protected] > www.horticulturalnews.org/ > www.virtualorchard.net/ > http://virtualorchard.net/njfruitfocus/index.html > www.appletesters.net > > > <hortnewscover50percent.jpg> > > > _______________________________________________ > apple-crop mailing list > [email protected] > http://virtualorchard.net/mailman/listinfo/apple-crop
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