After looking around my yards I can also offer a few more things in trade. Heavenly Bamboo seedlings, Blue Chinese Wisteria Seedlings and Dogwood seedlings (white). My Poets Daffodils could use a little sorting also. I could prob spare about 20 of them. Thanks Again!

Hi, I'm a late poster on this one, so you've probably already traded the Paw Paw away. I also like boysenberries. I have 1st year McIntosh apple trees. I also have a hybrid strawberry that's vigorous, sweet and very early. I started with just 20 small transplants and now, a year and a half later, have a patch 50' X 4' that's full of berries. I can't tell you what the hybridization is because the local grower from whom I got it doen't want competition from other local growers. But it is a good one. I'm also live in upstate NY so my things would probably do well for you. Well, maybe you could let me know if you are interested. Thanks - Bill BC08@localnet.com

I have never seen any Michigan wild blueberries, though they do exist. I will probably grow some once I move. Not easy to get, but some places have them. I'm still in shock and awe over how much better home grown tastes. I never even liked strawberries that much, as I apparently never had good ones. Now that I have tasted my own, I added a 8x12 ft area to grow even more. And I still will be growing a few in hanging baskets, and wherever I can fit them. They are awesome! I do grow June, everbearing, alpines, pineberries, and musk strawberries. White, red, and yellow.

Pawpaws are extremely tough to get established as new young plants, let alone in a z4 location where the ground freezes deeply. Pawpaws and any borderline plants takes at least 3 full growing seasons to get established. The roots have to be able to get deep, and the top wood must develop sufficient girth to become fully hardy. While not in z4, Colorado is a tough climate to get them to take because of our dry air, high altitude extreme sun, and nearly daily freeze thaw cycles in winter. In the process of losing many plants (pawpaws and others) and experimenting, I have learned a few ways to get them through the first 2-3 years which is when failure is most likely. I have established and grow several plants which are not considered hardy in my climate such as southern magnolia, figs, hardy palm and others. Setting young plants out in the spring after frost, use a wall-o-water around the plant, and locate plants on an east exposure next to a house. Use bamboo sticks to hold the wall -o-water as open as possible when the weather gets hot, and keep it well watered. Leave the wall-o-water on all year, and remove all but one of the bamboo poles in the fall. Bury the whole works in dry leaves at least 6"+ thick, and 3 feet wide after the little plant drops its leaves. To keep the leaves in place use burlap or similar material to cover the mounded leaf pile. Plastic may be okay in wet climates. In spring, gradually remove the cover and leaves, but keep the wall of water in place to protect the plant from late freezes. In summer, the plant may outgrow the top of the wall of water, and may be removed. In fall replace the wall-o-water and repeat the process from the year before. The next spring after danger of frost remove the wall-o-water. In fall just mulch deeply in leaves. Seedling plants of early ripening cultivars on own roots in pots seem to be the hardiest. Use foam pipe insulation tubes to wrap as much trunk as possible each fall, and deep mulch. Remove in spring. I hope this is helpful. Once well established, they should be able to take severe winter cold that wipes out young plants. It seems to me that it may be possible to grow pawpaws in those z4 locations that have sufficient summer warmth.