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Post by paulf on Sept 20, 2023 20:12:11 GMT -5
A couple of years ago one of the apple trees we planted gave us a large harvest. Two years ago a gala planted ten years ago gave up a few fruits. Last year all fruit trees rested. The ten year old pear tree gave us two pears.
This year every one of the fruit trees exploded with fruit. The galas are as sweet as sugar, the pears are great and the variety that has produced several times (that we don't really know what it is since we thought was a crabapple) has the largest and sweetest apple we have ever seen.
Green beans,cucumbers, apples and pears along with a record apricot harvest almost makes up for the lack of tomatoes.
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Post by octave1 on Sept 21, 2023 9:30:15 GMT -5
I can easily forego tomatoes in exchange for green beans, cucumbers, apples, pears and apricots.
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Post by Laura_in_FL on Sept 21, 2023 15:52:48 GMT -5
That's awesome, paulf! You might give those trees a good feeding, or some nice compost and/or mulch in the spring (if you can find safe stuff). If they bore very heavily this year, they likely will not bear as heavily again next year. But hopefully with good nutrition they won't take the year completely off. Of course, you'll still be at the mercy of late frosts, but with any luck you'll get a good harvest again next year.
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Post by september on Sept 23, 2023 12:19:15 GMT -5
I can only dream about my own apple, cherry and pear trees. All the apple trees I've planted eventually come down with some kind of central fungus in the trunk and lose branches gradually until the whole grafted tree succumbs. I've left the root stock to grow back, but always just a very tiny crab apple that isn't even worth picking. One of this week's visitors brought us a bag of the newly developed First Kiss apples, they are so good, very crisp with more acid then sweet flavor. I think it will be a while before nursery trees are available to the public, only a couple of commercial Minnesota orchards have limited fruit for sale to the public at present.
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