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Feb 20, 2012 12:24 PM CST
Name: Mary
The dry side of Oregon
Be yourself, you can be no one else
Charter ATP Member Farmer Region: Oregon Enjoys or suffers cold winters
Definitely fruity here too. We live on an old homestead that had a few apple trees of unknown varieties. Two are crabapples of different kinds, one is a good producer of apples that aren't good until after a hard frost or two, and two are not doing as well. Those have sprouts coming up beside the original trunk. We decided to let the best of those grow to replace the trees because we have no idea what varieties we have anyway. In addition, we planted new trees a couple of years ago: Stanley plum, Bartlett pear, MacIntosh, Honeycrisp and Jonagold apples. We might add more. I also have Canadice and Concord grapes, plus one other whose name escapes me now. We have a few elderberry bushes that produce quite well, and I'm trying to grow blueberries which so far have been unhappy and unproductive. Wasps liked the strawberries and raspberries too much so I quit growing them as I have an allergy problem with insect stings and bites and didn't feel that it was wise to take that risk to pick them. And now I am trying to root some fig cuttings. I'll be pushing the zone to grow them. My new USDA zone is 6a.
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