Archive for November 1996
APPLE-TREE MORTALITY DURING THE WINTERS OF 94-95 AND 95-96 IN PETERS CREEK
by Dwight Bradley The winter of 1995 96 turned out to be a “test winter” for us in Peters Creek. It wasn’t particularly cold (lowest was not quite -30°F), but the problem was that there was no snow. The first significant snowfall wasn’t until January, by which time we had already had been…
Read MoreREVISED SURVIVAL FOR WINTER 1995-1996
by Clair hammers (1364 Esro Road, Fairbanks, AK 99712 phone 907-488-6446) Our coldest temp was -40°F on 12-5-95 with a snow cover of 1.5 inches. We did receive an additional 18 inches on 2-2096 with a total for the winter of 26 inches. Total rainfall for the 1995 growing season was 11.10 inches.…
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