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31 Oct 2009Old Apple Tree #1
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Sunny 8°C / 46°FPicked the last of the king apples today. We got a couple of grocery bags full. I wanted to just leave them for the birds, but Ron is not so generous. He seems to think that birds are just a bunch of lazy free loaders. He doesn’t notice them busily working the trees over eating bugs and...
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29 Oct 2009Old Apple Tree #1 and Old Apple Tree #2
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Both my old apple trees put out huge yields this year. In fact we’ve been having one to two apple crisps a week for the past two months. We have an extra refrigerator entirely filled with apples. We are dehydrating them also. We bought an apple peeler/corer and wore out the blade & ...7°C / 44°F -
23 Oct 2008Old Apple Tree #1 Harvesting and Old orchard Young Orchard garden
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Cloudy 9°C / 49°FHarvested the Kings last weekend. There was only about 1 grocery bag worth. That’s enough for maybe two pans of apple brown betty. In years past I’ve harvested eight times as much.
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29 Jul 2008Old Apple Tree #1 and Old orchard Young Orchard garden
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Cloudy 16°C / 61°FI pruned the old apple tree #1 this weekend. I started out trimming some of the fruitless branches with mildewy leaves that were hanging low. Then I stopped and did a careful analysis of the tree (pics to prove). It’s old, rotten to the core, and had one monstrously long branch that grew...
