July 20, 2009 – Fine Apple Crop (so far)
The apple trees have set a tremendous amount of fruit this year. Today I tried to make the trees resemble apple trees more so than grapevines. In the first go-round, I probably picked a couple of 5 gallon buckets of golf-ball sized and smaller apples from four trees.
But the William’s Pride apples are further along and won’t be long before they are ready. I think they are amazingly crisp and tasty for an early apple.
one year ago…”Martin’s View of the Swamp”
2 Responses to “July 20, 2009 – Fine Apple Crop (so far)”
Kristin says:
July 23, 2009 at 12:21 am
The apple trees are like that in Oskaloosa too. Those look delish! J/w, do you spray?
highhopesgardens says:
July 25, 2009 at 7:54 pm
We do not spray – #1 because we are an organic farm, and #2, because it requires such judicious timing and repeated applications (whether organic or conventional) that we just live with imperfect apples. We primarily use them for pies, applesauce and dried fruit, so we can cut away any bad parts – but not all of them are damaged with apple maggot or whatever the apple pest of the year seems to be.
Mark