"Puester" > wrote in message
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> maxine in ri wrote:
>
>>
>> How tall are your trees? Perhaps you could take an idea from the
>> Florida citrus farmers and purchase a smudge pot or three to surround
>> your trees. That, or if the trees are pruned low, you could try
>> covering them with tarps when the temperature is going low.
>
>
> About three years ago in early May DH spread a huge plastic
> tarp over a PVC pipe frame he constructed on one of the trees
> and ran my hairdryer out to it, draped over a branch and run on
> high overnight. We had a frost and the tree came through it
> really well. Three days later we uncovered it (because the HOA
> was making tsk-tsk noises) and we found loads of blossoms.
> That night it snowed a foot and they all froze solid.
>
>>
>> If any of the flowers survive the snow, get out your feather and
>> diddle the blossoms so you can get them pollinated.
>>
>
> Ooooh, I don;'t know if I'd remember how to diddle,
> but I'm willing to try. ;-)
>
> Thanks for the advice. It's not a crisis but I would like to get
> a crop every five years or so. We planted the trees ~20 yrs.
> ago and have had two bumper crops in that time. I usually
> have to buy apricots (and pay about three times as much for
> Colorado 'cots as Mme. Schaller does in Minneapolis fer
> cripes sake.)
>
> gloria p

Snow in April is *normal* for Denver. Snow in May is a fairly regular
occurrence too.

Ms P