Just an update to my last post concerning winter survival. We lost all of our Spanish Otto Quast. We don't plan to replace them at this point. The whole field averaged 10-12% loss. Pretty tough to take. We checked with some of the other producers/growers and they have also experienced large losses. They said it was due to the extremely wet spring and summer on top of the very cold winter.
We have been advised to continue to prune hard where we see signs of growth and replace what has not survived.
Our Munstead did pretty good. We found some growth to propogate from on the base of some of the plants and may purchase more but our plan to double our fields has been put on hold for now.
We found some interesting high tunnel research that may help our survival rate in the future. The link is posted in the next blog if you would like to read it.
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