Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/04/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Tina, You know you can't kill a fig tree. Cut it down at the base and you will have figs in three years. As to the old hickory trees, they will be back; they didn't get to be old trees by not weathering a few snap freezes over 100 years. On 4/22/07, Tina Manley <images@comporium.net> wrote: > > At 10:22 PM 4/21/2007, you wrote: > > >In my 77 years, I have never seen this situation before. In > >Tennessee, the governor is trying to see if he can get disaster aid > >for the farmers and fruit growers, and I have heard that the > >situation is similar in the Carolinas. > > > >Jim Nichols > >Tullahoma, TN USA > > Yes, it is a disaster here in the Carolinas. 100% of the peach crop > is gone. At my farm we lost peaches, apples, figs, pears - I don't > know if any of them will come back. The fig bushes - some as big as > a house - look totally dead. My Japanese maple, which was beautiful > with spring leaves, now has dead tags hanging all over the > tree. Huge hickory trees in the forest are totally brown. There is a > big peach orchard just up the road and I talked to the woman there > who said they lost every single tree. There will be no South > Carolina peaches this year. :-( > > Tina > > Tina Manley, ASMP, NPPA > http://www.tinamanley.com > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- Don don.dory@gmail.com