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Pastimes : Gardening and Especially Tomato Growing -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Crocodile who wrote (1243)	10/14/2001 11:55:43 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3495

I like Macintosh apples, but the climate here is just too warm for them. They are my favorite modern apple. I am hopeful that the Cox will do ok here. I had been told that they would not (too hot), but the ones at Monticello are very good, and the climate is not that different. We are further north, but also lower elevation, and closer to the Potomac, which is almost like a bay just a few miles east. I think the standards that apples are judged by are commercial, not back yard. Our climate is closest to Mount Vernon, home of George Washington, and Gunston Hall, home of George Mason. Don't know what George Mason grew, but George Washington's favorite apples were Albemarle (Newtown) Pippin and Hewe's Crab. Further south than Virginia is really too hot for apples at all, commercially. Jefferson's peach trees look much better than mine - I was very envious. We have had a terrible problem with various fungi this year - I started spraying with neem, and will use sulfur and iron next year, and dormant oil when it gets cooler this year. The grapes had black rot, but it did not faze the muscadines. But my fig trees are as nice as his, although much younger.