Mutsu, Virginia Beauty, and Hawkeye Delicious. First fruiting for the Hawkeye and both apples on the tree are very small, so possibly not representative. Next year…
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Love your pic! I have all three! Going to try Hawkeye shortly. Virginia beauty has been a reliable, modestly sized, but big in taste apple for several years.
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My first Nijiseiki. Surprisingly good. I didn’t have high hopes for it compared to Korean Giant and Chojuro but I’m impressed with it so far. Looking forward to more of these in the future.
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A few days ago my parents brought back some almonds in their hand luggage from trees growing adjacent to my Aunt’s house in Spain.
Possibly the toughest nuts I’ve had to crack. Shell shrapnel was flying across the room
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You ought to try black walnuts.
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I found a group of black walnuts in the park of a nearby castle. I finally understood why they were used for making a cheap version of antler buttons. I wonder if someone has ever calculated how many calories it costs to shell them.
Not to mention removing the husk. 
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I love the taste of black walnuts, but only the ones that grow around our home which are like cracking rocks. I’ve tried ones from other places but they always taste awful, even the store bought ones are inferior to the home ones. Makes me leery about buying any scions of thin shelled varieties, because I’m worried about the taste.
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They lack the taste of home.
But I wonder what happens to store bought walnuts of any kind. Most of them taste like stale oil. And it doesn’t matter where they come from. We have a walnut orchard, so we get to feel the difference in taste as they age, but we’ve kept some outside dry and unshelled for a season and they still tasted several classes better than anything from stores.
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eevery day is a mixed bag. having to pull every tomato at first blush, the squirrel and slugs are relentless right now. white mashed potato squash fell off while I was climbing over it so I guess I’ll see if I like those, tonight. (I’d better, there’s 10 more like it on the vine)
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Picked (up) some quinces
and Conference pears.
Not sure if it was smart to brave cold wind and rain while on week 3 of ATBs, but I wasn’t about to leave those for the deer.
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A couple of seedlings: an offspring of an ancient walnut tree that grew by our house - most of the nuts are too large to fit into any hand nutcracker. And the first fruit of a pin-head pear growing by a drainage ditch above our orchard. Likely a pyrus pyraster.
I was thinking of grafting it over guerilla-style, but I’ll wait for a taste test when these ripen.
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