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Post by coppice on Apr 2, 2019 7:43:01 GMT -5
Other "improved" selections have been made over the years. Delicious is not the apple it once was. Neither is "Abraham Lincoln" tomato...
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Post by farmerjack41 on Apr 2, 2019 7:54:21 GMT -5
Reds don't seem to keep well since the alar (sp ) scare. My favorite apple for pies and apple sauce. Do not have to add sugar.
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Post by carolyn on Apr 2, 2019 8:13:52 GMT -5
Other "improved" selections have been made over the years. Delicious is not the apple it once was. Neither is "Abraham Lincoln" tomato... thats what my mom said but truly... is that the case? We invested money and time to get a heritage red delicious apple tree. after one ripe apple we cut it down. it didn't taste any better than the ones you buy at the store. wet ... no flavor. and crunchy. it needs salt, sugar, lemon and cinnamon to choke it down. is what we remember as children really true? or is it a skewed idea of something that was really good or really bad but not necessarily the real truth?
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Post by reubent on Jan 6, 2022 21:13:52 GMT -5
I keep picking away at cleaning up more hillside and planting a few more fruit trees every year. Got 11 apple trees moved from the compact planting to the permanent site last year, some of them 6 inches diameter already. 3 died. The rest seemed to survive the summer, hope they will grow out plenty of roots over winter and take off strong in the spring. I have ordered 3 new ones. Cox's orange, Albamarel pippin, and Ashmedes Kernal. Got the three piles of dirt mixed with old horse manure from the barn and minerals, plus a little ammonia sulfate. Waiting for their arrival. And working on some more area to get a few more in before spring. Got in 1 peach 2 springs ago, it grew poorly in spite of the good hill of soil, half died even. Over wintered and last spring took off like crazy. had to have a winter to grow it's roots out into the good compost mix dirt. Planted 3 more last spring and they did pretty good. Weren't quite as damaged by too much pot time I guess. All 4 look loaded with buds and ready for cropping nest summer. They were all those stranded late spring stragglers in a walmart garden center lot, hard to not feel sorry for them and want to give them a chance. 2 of the peach trees had a bunch of little green peaches on them when I got them, they all fell off but one peach, (didn't need to be growing fruit anyway, they needed to put on some size) That one got big and ripe and was a delicious perfect peach.
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