Hi Helene, What a great question! I'm two seasons away from planting out a new block on mostly MM.111. And northern zone 4 to boot. I know from experience that...
Michael Phillips
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Mar 14, 2003 12:38 pm
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Anybody care to comment about northern tree spacing? ... From: Michael Phillips [mailto:mphil@...] Sent: Sunday, March 16, 2003 7:41 AM To:...
Michael Phillips
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Mar 16, 2003 12:44 pm
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SCAB CONTROLHi Brien, Visions of fungal invasions are dancing in all our heads! Here's the words from my book apt to your situation: The severity of the odds...
Hi folks, Here is a quote from Cornell Cooperative Extension's Scaffolds bulletin that I think is of interest: "two successive wetting periods, the first...
Brian Caldwell
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May 14, 2003 9:55 am
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Brian - That information and much more has been in the New England Apple Pest Management Guide since 1996. If you don't have hard copy, the 2003 edition...
Glen Koehler
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May 14, 2003 12:33 pm
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Links got broken in previous message, putting them on separate lines should work: That's what the model at ...
Glen Koehler
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May 14, 2003 12:37 pm
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Hmm, still wrapping across lines. This time it's (almost) guaranteed to work: http://pmo.umext.maine.edu/apple/AllModels/MEmodel/RadarME-Monmouth.htm Go to...
Glen Koehler
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May 14, 2003 12:47 pm
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Greetings group. Here's my dilemma. Last three years have been awful for apple production at Log Cabin Orchard - in all three years damage occurred at or...
Hi folks, Here is a new product. It is an organic pesticide that is much more effective against a braod range of pests than previously available ...
Brian Caldwell
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May 27, 2003 3:31 pm
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Thank you for the email. I am seeking any information on organic spray materials for fruit trees. I am currently trying to manage 10 acres of apples and have...
marley
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Jun 13, 2003 10:27 pm
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I'd like to second this request. I have a 1 1/2 acre orchard planted in 2001-2003 with a mix of disease resistant varieties, some old favorites and a...
Hi folks, There are many other people on this list qualified to answer this question, but here are my thoughts. 1) read the Apple Grower by Michael Phillips...
Brian Caldwell
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Jun 16, 2003 3:30 am
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This spring, we sprayed a seemingly ridiculous number of times against scab. We were free of scab until many lesions from a major rain on 6/1 showed up. From...
Brian Caldwell
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Jul 30, 2003 6:34 pm
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Greetings Brian. Not sure if you received a response on this - I'm finding that if there are responses on applenet I don't seem to get them. Anyhow, I have...
Brian - this isn't a complete answer, but in the right direction. Risk of russetting by sulfur increases with high temperatures(which I take to mean daily...
Glen Koehler
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Aug 4, 2003 2:57 pm
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Just letting folks know in digital la-la land that I had my first "apple" the other day. Really a crab a friend discovered while running from hornets last...
just a message to keep the list active- no activity means it gets deleted from the server. Jim PS- I'm doing well. Have the ground dug up to start the...
Hi Jim Gallott, Great to hear that you're getting orchard ground ready!! We were plastered too, but not quite that bad. Close though! Liberty, Enterprise,...
Brian Caldwell
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Nov 6, 2003 3:47 am
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Here's another one to wake up Applenet... Dave Rosenberger research trial this past season at Hudson Valley Lab found that Oxidate was ineffective for scab...
Glen Koehler
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Nov 6, 2003 1:36 pm
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Hi, Does anyone have info about a good-sized organic orchard in NYS called Knapp Orchard? I'd like to get in touch with them. Thanks, Brian Brian Caldwell ...
Tell me what you all think about this scenario for orchard lepidoptera, each spray application of course decided upon the reality of a given orchard site: a.....
You shouldn't need to fill out anything at Yahoo to be getting messages. To access archived messages may be different. Nothing that I know has changed in the...
Hi all, The basic issue here is that researchers are finding that organic vegetable growers who apply substantial rates (like 10 T/A) of compost every year are...
Brian Caldwell
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Jan 11, 2004 5:36 pm
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I guess I'll weigh in on this because it interests me from a particular vantage point, namely in the context of a closed farm organism, which I see as the only...
Hanna Bail, Hugh Will...
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Jan 11, 2004 11:48 pm
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Hi Michael hope you got my last note to you re- proposed winter hob-nob together. Also I just composed my response to the whole orchard nutrient dialogue, and...
Hanna Bail, Hugh Will...
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Jan 12, 2004 12:01 am
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First, let me add this response to the mix from Dan Kelly in Missouri: I am a bit ambivalent about the dependency of organic growers use of Dipel as you stated...
... I wouldn't have trusted Dipel for CM control under the circumstances of having 25 acres, most of which went wholesale. Smaller scale, where you'd need...
Hi folks, On a very reductionist level-- As far as I know, potassium in wood ash is very soluble and if applied on the surface will reach the roots of grass...
Brian Caldwell
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Jan 14, 2004 4:47 am
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The place to be for apple growers here in the Northeast every March is at our annual networking meeting in the Berkshire Mountains of Massachusetts. Rumors had...
