- May 19, 2009
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I am so sad. This last record breaking winter in western PA has killed almost all my fruit tress. The 60 yr. old Snow and Cider apple trees were on their last leg but I was hoping for another year or two. They are gone. My two lovely cherry trees. I just don't understand what happened to them. They are both 17 years old. Lovely trees. Until 2 years ago when a wide rough scar started to climb up the trunk and the base of the trunk started to engorge around the entire trunk with a thick rough bark. Very unlike cherry bark. This year the scar has climbed up the entire trunk and the Queen Anne is dead. My lovely tree. The Bing is on it's last legs and will die over next winter. It has a very spare smattering of blossoms and the rest of the tree is dead and dry like the Queen Anne. The pears died because I planted them too close to the pine tree. My mistake. All I have left that is healthy is the Fiji Apple. Even it's lovely apples are misshapen when they are ripe. They sure taste good tho. It's in another part of the yard from the rest of the now defunct orchard. I am thinking , tho I am in zone 5b, I need to replace my trees with zone 4 trees in case we get another polar vortex next winter. The forecasters are saying that the trend last winter could last another 10 years.
Sadly,
Karen in PA 15658
Sadly,
Karen in PA 15658