I wanted to share Jim Cummins thoughts on my tree losses. It's useful info to file away in the ol' brain: This set of problems really doesn't sound like...
Hello This season I planted about twenty five trees, mostly from St. Lawrence nursery on a hillside I cleared. I also transplanted some two year old trees also...
I'd suggest making sure no water pools around the trunks (you say it's on a hillside, so I assume you can channel any standing water away from them). If you...
I think you can only wait. It helps a lot to cultivate roughly around them about 6 foot diameter circle....
Bail Hanna
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I have a piece of land that I recently cleared and am planning to plant with apple trees. The site is a sloping hill which was pretty damp so I've tiled it and...
Hi Seth, Clearing land and installing drainage tile means mucho machine work has been done. The ecosystem of a living soil has been disturbed (understandably)...
Oats would be good to get quick cover for erosion prevention, and would winterkill, though it really doesn't get you started on permanent cover, but it will...
Hi all, I've just started to do some research on using silicates for disease control, particularly against sooty blotch and flyspeck. It seems that natural...
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Hello. I just found your group and had a little time to do some searching of the archives. My husband and I with our 4 children live in the southeast corner of...
Misy - Please also feel free to avail yourself of the Network I run for growers in the Upper Midwest. You are further south, but some info on our website...
Thank you Deirdre for this welcome and for the additional information. I have a lot to learn, but I feel very fortunate to have found this group and the links...
Quite a lot of work was done with potassium silicate - waterglass - by biodynamic growers from the 1940's into the 80's; it's effective in managing summer...
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Sep 28, 2006 11:52 am
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The certifier I am working with to get my newly planted orchard certified in three years pointed out that latex paint contains things that are not on the NOP's...
For Southwest injury, you are talking strictly reflection of light by the white paint. Linseed oil (unless I am badly mistaken) won't leave a white coating,...
Deirdre, Do not use linseed oil. I am surprised that your certifier is concerned about the paint. Other certifiers are not. Maybe you should rephrase the...
Yes, indeed, I neglected to say that the linseed oil would need some sort of pigment, although possibly kaolin clay might add that? Thanks for the milk paint...
The biodynamic solution is to make a wash of fresh cow manure and clay about 50/50. This does so much more than latex paint. Try it, you'll be amazed at the...
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Oct 20, 2006 7:53 pm
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This kind of stuff reminds me why we don't certify. Hugh W...
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Oct 20, 2006 7:58 pm
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Hello everyone, We are looking for a used rack and cloth press, if anyone has any ideas where we can find one. We want to be able to make smaller more...
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Nov 12, 2006 2:14 am
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hello hugh- how are you my friend? you've probably thought of this but orchard equipment in conway mass. might know of someone wanting to sell a press or they...
Hugh, We have a batch press we bought perhaps 15 years ago from a company named "sun" sometlhing in Washington State that went out of business right after we...
Gordon Bemis
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Nov 14, 2006 3:37 pm
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Howdy all, This year's get-together of apple growers in the Northeast will be held . . . that's precisely the question, eh? One compounding factor is we may...
Howdy Michael and everyone else - Am I correct in assuming that the get-together will happen during the week and not on the weekend, as last year? * Week of...
Aye, we're still voting on when for this spring's meeting . . . but as Lloyd has filled me in on when Stump Sprouts' facilities are available, we're going to...
Michael, I can do any of the mondays or tuesdays listed in feb , don't know about March yet. Happy New Year. John Brian Cramer Hutchins Farm 754 Monument St....
Gordon Bemis
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Hi all, I'm new to this list -- we have a small organic orchard in Harvard - and I would love to attend. We met John Bemis last year at the Nofa workshop. ...
michael- well things likewinter rye are still green here as they are at stump sprouts. i delivered up there today and the green had a frosting of 1/2 " of ice....
I'll pass along the information about the Organic Tree Fruit Symposium in Michigan below. I am not attending this event but hope to get a report from some...
The choices for meeting dates have narrowed to this: Monday/Tuesday, February 26-7 Monday/Tuesday, March 5-6 Wednesday/Thursday, March 14-5 And even with these...
