At 08:35 PM 2/1/08 -0500, you wrote: >Hey Gay, you can forget about apricots unless you have better air drainage >than I think you do. The trees are indeed very hardy, but they bloom in >mid-April and are very frost sensitive. Even the young fruits are frost >sensitive, so you actually need no frost post-bloom to get a crop. I had >Apricot trees for over 10 years here in a valley situation and got 4 >fruits in that time.
Joel >I am looking at planting dwarf hardy apricots and American hazelnut trees (a >smaller sized nut tree good for smaller lots). I think an addendum on nut >trees would be useful. I've heard of a "hickan" hybrid of pecan and hickory >that survives our climate and gives a reasonable nut crop, but don't know of >anyone who has grown them. > >Gay > > >---------------------------------------------------- >Gay Nicholson, Ph.D. > >607-533-7312 (home office) >607-279-6618 (cell) > >1 Maple Avenue >Lansing, NY 14882 >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Sustainable Tompkins >Program Coordinator >w_ww.sustainabletompkins.org_ (http://www.sustainabletompkins.org/) > >Southern Tier Energy$mart Communities >Regional Coordinator >Cornell Cooperative Extension of Tompkins County >615 Willow Ave., Ithaca, NY 14850 >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > >**************Biggest Grammy Award surprises of all time on AOL Music. >(http://music.aol.com/grammys/pictures/never-won-a-grammy?NCID=aolcmp003000000025 >48) >_______________________________________________ >RSS, archives, subscription & listserv information for: >[email protected] >http://lists.mutualaid.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainabletompkins >free hosting by http://www.mutualaid.org _______________________________________________ RSS, archives, subscription & listserv information for: [email protected] http://lists.mutualaid.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainabletompkins free hosting by http://www.mutualaid.org
