Fireblight took all the apples from my ‘Yellow Newtown Pippin’ but two. Despite having no other fruit to support, the two remaining were still growing very slowly. While there was a peck or two on my ‘Gravenstein’ apples, the Pippins were unmolested so I didn’t feel the need to bag them.
Today when I went out to water the garden, I saw the twig that held them broken off the tree. One small unripe apple was gone. The other had what looked like a bird peck in it. Either it was a very fat bird or it was a squirrel because the twig was broken right off even though it was green, not dead.
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Day 506
Malus domestica
Harvesting
Harvested by a squirrel or bird. :( |
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Previous Journals
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Gooseberry Harvesting
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Limbo garden
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Garlic 'Lautrec Pink' Harvesting and Limbo garden
Later Journals
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Olallieberry Pruning and Apple 'Yellow Newtown Pippin' Pruning
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Plum 'Mariposa' and Grafted Varieties garden
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Aprium 'Flavor Delight' and Cherry 'Royal Lee'
Comments
rainymountain wrote:
That is too bad!
Posted on 26 Jun 12 (11 months ago)
spidra wrote:
After yet more pecking on my ‘Gravenstein’ apples, I finally put up some bird netting.
Posted on 04 Jul 12 (11 months ago)
poppyde wrote:
Sounds more like war zone.
Posted on 07 Jul 12 (11 months ago)
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