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Post by gb98 on Oct 1, 2021 7:26:22 GMT -5
binnylou , thanks for the bump! When I lived in NJ, I planted 2 plum trees, 1 peach tree and a few dozen raspberries. The raspberries and one of the plums were a success. The other plum I saved as a pollinizer for the producing plum. The peach tree was a failure - the fruit would get to about the size of large nuts and then the squirrels would take them, bite into them and bury them into the lawn! The plums were small, but delicious. I never sprayed and as a result, I would lose many to brown rot and plum curculio, but there were so many, I still had plenty to eat and give to neighbors! The nice thing is that while early ripening fruit often had a plum curculio at the pit, later ripening fruit was worm-free! So now I have been living in Western Massachussetts for 3 years. I planted 2 plum trees, 1 apricot tree, a few dozen raspberries, blackberries and some blueberries. One plum is a Santa Rosa which I planted in May 2019. The other plum is a Methley and the apricot is a Tilden - both of them I planted this spring. So it will be awhile before I start getting any fruit. The Santa Rosa has bloomed the last couple of springs, but has yet to set any fruit. I planted all the berries in Spring 2020 and the raspberries are already producing bumper crops! Last year, Japanese beetles were eating a lot of foliage off of my Santa Rosa plum and my raspberries. I put down Milky Spore last fall and Japanese bettles are still here, but it seems like there are less.
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Post by heirloomfan on Oct 11, 2021 11:01:52 GMT -5
This year we tried putting large net bags over our apple trees, because the squirrels eat any available fruit early on, and they ruin ripe fruit. Seems to have done the trick because we finally got a nice harvest this year. Now I need to try to net the peach and plum trees, because they squirrels and birds ruin those as well. The nets are kind of a pain to take on and off but saved the harvest from the animals.
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