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| BIRD PROTECTION |
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| EXCLUDING CHERRY VINEGAR FLY |
It is going to be 90 degrees already. Cherry Vinegar Fly wiped out our cherry crop. If we are going to have any cherries in the future, we are going to have to bag every fruit. Fruit is coloring up and birds are already pecking peaches. Apricots are next. Since we gave up spraying chemicals, there is a lot more life in the orchard, beneficials as well as pests. From the farmer's standpoint the pests seem to be winning.
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| 2015 UMEBOSHI WITH SHISO LEAVES |
Our ume harvest is finished. Loquat are next.
Every year there seems to be an introduction of a new pest or two. As pests become resistant to every ag chemical the industry throws at them we will have to learn to eat wormy fruit. It may gross us out but it may be our only alternative to starvation. Pests are not going away.
See you at the orchard, Tosh
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