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said that Rappahannock Extension Agent Kenner Love had been around to all the area growers to assess the damage and felt it’s still too early to tell how bad the damage was.
“It seems to be worse in some places than in others, due to the high and low areas in the land here,” he said. “Some types of apples and peaches were hurt worse than others. I think the Red Delicious here got hit hard and there will be reduced numbers in all the early varieties. If there’s more freezing it will be worse.”
Mr. Jenkins said it’s hard for him to estimate the amount of damage as of now but “we’ll have apples, peaches and nectarines even though it may not be as many as we’d hoped it would be.”
Alex Sharp, of Green Mountain Farm, said the freeze killed the majority of the blossoms but with full bloom on the trees, or for those just past full bloom, you can still have reasonable size crops even after a freeze. “If conditions are favorable for pollination it won’t be too bad, we’ll just have to wait and see.”
See Freeze, Page A-3
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