Freeborn
5 year old buck +
First, does anybody have a trusted website that will provide low temps for a location? The information I am getting from Minnesota’s DNR Climate site seems wrong. For example their website shows my area (zip 56361) had a low last winter of around -35 while the low this winter was -29. I did not think it got -29 this past year but I could be wrong.
I’m a little behind on following up on my apple trees so these trees died back because of the 2013-2014 winter. These trees came from Cummins and were planted spring 2013. The trees that died back are all rated for zone 4 and include Northern Spy, Yarlington Mills, Black Oxford, King David and Golden Russet. By the way both my Honey crisp and Liberty did well.
The trees that did die back grew back from the ground last year, did well over this winter and look good. My area had lows per the DNR website of around -35 last winters while this winter was around -29. In 2013 we had a very dry year while last year we had a very wet year could this or the lack of age/development cause some of the dieback or is it strictly temps?
At this point I can dig up the trees and replace with trees I know will make it or roll the dice and see how they do. What do you think?
Thanks much.
FB
I’m a little behind on following up on my apple trees so these trees died back because of the 2013-2014 winter. These trees came from Cummins and were planted spring 2013. The trees that died back are all rated for zone 4 and include Northern Spy, Yarlington Mills, Black Oxford, King David and Golden Russet. By the way both my Honey crisp and Liberty did well.
The trees that did die back grew back from the ground last year, did well over this winter and look good. My area had lows per the DNR website of around -35 last winters while this winter was around -29. In 2013 we had a very dry year while last year we had a very wet year could this or the lack of age/development cause some of the dieback or is it strictly temps?
At this point I can dig up the trees and replace with trees I know will make it or roll the dice and see how they do. What do you think?
Thanks much.
FB