Re: Arils, etc.
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- Subject: Re: Arils, etc.
- From: E* G* <e*@moose.ncia.net>
- Date: Thu, 6 Mar 1997 11:28:33 -0700 (MST)
>All this talk about how arils and their relatives are not good for the
>type of weather we get here in the Mid-Atlantic/East Coast (humid, too
>hot, too cold, wet, sometimes altogether yucky) is very disheartening!
>I wanted to try my hand at growing them, but now I'm not sure if I'll
>just be wasting my money. Oh, well, I'm saving all of the messages
>concerning arils and such in a folder so maybe I can apply what I've
>learned to an attempt at growing them someday. By the way, I saw the
>first robin of spring today pecking around in my yard! (-:
I am trying an arilbred median this year by Gadd in MA - Clarence
mentioned him yesterday, I believe. It is PATRIOT'S GEM and was
registered in '93. It's immediate ancestry is Lady x Vindaloo.
I am ordering through the Godfreys at Hermit Medlars Walk in
MA.
I am assuming that it does well in Zones 4 - 6 and I will raise
the ante and try it here in the Mountains.
Here's hoping,
Ellen
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Ellen Gallagher "I yam what I yam!"
e_galla@moose.ncia.net Popeye
Lancaster, New Hampshire, USA
USDA Zone 3
