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By Kenner P. Love
Extension Agent, ANR Crop & Soil
Sciences i The following are winter gardening tips from the Rappahannock Extension Office.
• Sour cherry is a good fruit for the home garden. The trees are relatively small, and insects and diseases usually are not a serious problem. 'Montmorency' is a highly recommended sour cherry variety. It pollinates itself, so it can be planted alone. It requires very little pruning and will produce good crops with little care other than bird netting.
• Sod ground covers in peach orchards can suppress vigorous vegetative growth while allowing fruit to attain normal size. Soil moisture is generally found to be higher under sod than in areas under constant cultivation.
• The type of mulch matters when vegetables are grown in raised beds. Tomatoes and peppers grown in raised beds with bare soil, black plastic, white plastic, and living rye mulches had
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