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Cold injury to fruit trees a big concern
By Gary Pullano, Assistant Editor Reprinted with permission from Fruit Growers News, April 2014 Edition Vol. 53, #4 The need for growers to understand the impact of cold injury to fruit trees in 2014, particularly to the more tender crops, made a series of presentations by Jon Clements, Extension tree fruit specialist with the University…
Read MoreA Study of the Winter Kill Phenomena
By Anne Wieland Passed on from Ellen VandeVisse, a member from Palmer AK. Dear Homer friends who garden, Back in June you may have taken the time to enter data in the Winter Kill survey. It’s been quite a while since then and some amazing things have happened demonstrating the resilience of nature…
Read MoreAPPLE WINTER SURVIVAL IN MINNESOTA
—David K. Wildung (Horticulturalist, North-Central Experiment Station, Minnesota) (This article is from the North-Central Quarterly) The winter of 1995-96 will be remembered as the coldest winter on record in Minnesota. The all-time state low minimum temperature of -60° F was recorded at Tower, MN on February 2, 1996. While the official low temperature…
Read MoreAPPLE-TREE MORTALITY DURING THE WINTERS OF 94-95 AND 95-96 IN PETERS CREEK
by Dwight Bradley The winter of 1995 96 turned out to be a “test winter” for us in Peters Creek. It wasn’t particularly cold (lowest was not quite -30°F), but the problem was that there was no snow. The first significant snowfall wasn’t until January, by which time we had already had been…
Read MoreREVISED SURVIVAL FOR WINTER 1995-1996
by Clair hammers (1364 Esro Road, Fairbanks, AK 99712 phone 907-488-6446) Our coldest temp was -40°F on 12-5-95 with a snow cover of 1.5 inches. We did receive an additional 18 inches on 2-2096 with a total for the winter of 26 inches. Total rainfall for the 1995 growing season was 11.10 inches.…
Read MoreSUMMER ORCHARD REPORT – Peters Creek 1996
-by Dwight Bradley After the rough 1995 winter which killed 20 of our 50 apple trees and set back quite a few more, the summer of 1995 was a great growing season. Most of the trees that survived the winter, and all of the new whips that went into replace the lost trees, put…
Read MoreGROWING FRUIT TREES AND MUCH MORE IN TOK
Last winter (89-90) we dropped to -50 F and had a lot of snow. There was considerable damage from snow mold. We occasionally had snow mold in Michigan, but it never seemed to be harmful. Here last winter we lost a lot of our strawberries (‘Toklat’, ‘Pioneer’ and an old variety from friends of friends…
Read MoreFRUIT TREE SURVIVAL RECORD, WINTER 1989 -1990 FAIRBANKS ALASKA
My coldest temperature was -46°F in late November, 1990 when we had very little snow cover. The following plant showed no winter injury: Apples: Antonovka, Battleford. Centennial, Chinese Golden Early, Dawn, Dolgo, Duchess of Oldenburg, Gravenstein Red. Heyer 12, Heyer 20, Lords Seedling, Morden 363, Norcue, Norda, Noret, Norson, Norland, Orenco, Oriole, Parkland,…
Read MoreSURVIVAL OF FRUIT TREES IN DELTA JUNCTION 1988-89
Below is a summary of the survival of our fruit trees after the winter of 1988-89. We experienced about a week of temperatures in the -60 F range with a low of -68 F. They were protected by 18 inches of sawdust in a 12 inch diameter metal cannister and a snow cover of about…
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