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By JAN LAVALLEY
Rappahannock News Staff Writer
After mid-April’s unexpected freeze, area growers were waiting it out while hoping for the best for this year’s crops.
When temperatures month before last dipped into the low 20s, growers - knew there would be an appreciableloss due to die early Spring and blossoming of the trees in their orchards.
Rappahannock Extension Agent Kenner Love said, “Pretty much the Red Delicious were the worst hit, as we expected. Other crops seem to be pretty good for most growers, including the peaches.”
“We won’t have a full crop, of course but 80 percent or so survived,” he said.
Leon Hutcheson, of Sunset Hills Farm, which is higher up than most other area orchards and got hit harder, by the frost, said, “I think it depends on where you’re located or where the trees are located in the orchard.”
“We probably lost 50 to 60 percent of our peaches. We usually get three bushels off a tree, but some of our trees have no peaches on them and some have only 12 to 15 or so.”
Mr. Hutcheson pointed out the
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