Apricot - The Versatile Fruit

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By Dennis Hinkamp
The good thing about apricot trees is they bloom early in the spring. The bad thing about apricot trees is they bloom early in the spring. While the early color is welcome, the chance of losing the fruit to later frosts in northern Utah is high.

"Apricots are one of those fruits where a little is good, but a lot is obnoxious," says Jerry Goodspeed, Utah State University Extension horticulturist. "With apricots it is usually feast or famine. If the blossoms escape being killed by a late frost, apricots start outnumbering zucchinis by late summer."

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