The prince of the last week made the brothers Simon van Mollram, district of Neunkirchen in Lower Austria, to tremble their newly planted, tender biomarilla. But with the help of 400 frost candles and a night watch on site at the delicate plants, they can be saved.
They had to vibrate all week, because the weather forecast predicted very cold until the weekend. “We were particularly afraid of our biomarilla, who wear very small fruit,” said Christoph Simon. “They are even more sensitive than the flowers themselves”.
RESCUE OPERATION OF THREE ON MORTH
And in one night the temperatures actually fell at zero degrees. “At three o’clock in the morning I received the message on my cell phone,” Christoph describes the start of the extensive “apricot rescue operation”. Together with brother Michael and an employee, they went to the orchard and bought 200 frost candles in an area of a hectare. At 5:30 am the temperature dropped even further to minus two degrees. “Then we had to set up another 200 candles,” said Christoph.
This use could be saved 2000 fruit trees. This was especially important because after a devastating storm her orchard was almost completely destroyed. With the help of tree sponsorship, however, they managed to raise money for reconstruction, to plant new trees and also to buy a new network. “We now have a normal hail network that is permeable to the wind,” said Christoph.
“Now only the IJsmen can be dangerous,” the brothers said. And if everything goes well, the first apricots can be harvested at the end of June.
Source: Krone
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