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Article: Fruit growers on guard in these mercurial times.(Agriculture)(Morning watering should pull most plants through the dry spell, gardeners say)
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- The Register Guard (Eugene, OR)
- Article date:
- February 10, 2003
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Byline: Garret Jaros The Register-Guard
JUNCTION CITY - As Mother Nature delivers warm winter days painted in powder blue skies, capped by cold nights and mornings dabbed in hoarfrost, gardeners are advised to take some simple precautions.
Fruit growers, meanwhile, will just have to wait and see.
"Ask me the first of March," said Robin Pfeiffer as he pruned grapevines at his hillside vineyard outside Junction City on Sunday. If the unseasonably warm weather persists, Pfeiffer said, growers may turn to anti-frost sprays or air-warming wind machines to help protect their crops.
The primary culprit isn't the night cold, Pfeiffer said, but ...