I learned a lesson with golden delicious, at least as far as my tree is concerned. Last year I had an abundant harvest for a young tree, but this year I had none. Not a single bloom. Very disappointing because I thought it truly was delicious. I was also able to eat it off the tree for several weeks.
Here’s the thing though. If @PomGranny 's tree continues to bear like that every year, isn’t that reason enough to keep doing what she’s doing? Why mess up a good thing?
Thanks for the comparison picture! I’ll sleep better tonight for sure. The GoldRush tree has been one of the two easier trees for me to prune and train, the other being William’s Pride. They seem to make branches at the right angles and have less watersprouts. They also made fruit spurs, if that is the correct term, along the branch and not just at the ends of the branches. I did train some of the GoldRust branches in the right direction for the space it is in, but it did not need much more care than that.
Your tree looks great by the way. I think you did a good job, maybe just prune off that branch to the upper left, or pull it down to maintain a central leader.
OK, it looked a bit lilac color in your photo…but such happens depending on light and stuff.
You probably do have the old fashioned kind, then. Green leaves, nice fragrance. They live almost anywhere but tips of leaves do brown out in full summer sun.
The variety called Sum & Substance has been the best for full sun in my experiences.
(Not fragrant, tho.)
I have two different cultivars of fragrance hosta, as I love plants with fragrant flowers, especially fragrant hosta. They have elegant flowers, pleasant fragrance, are disease and pest free, not much care required, can grow anywhere in the yard especially thrive in the area doesn’t have a lot of sun, under trees.
I don’t, but since you mentioned it is fragrant, I will get some if I saw the plant in the store. Another care free and fragrant plant (besides Rosa rugosa) I really like is iris. I have purple, white irises both are very fragrant. These are all outdoor plants.
Actually, in a greenhouse or small area, many hellebores have a smell…but most in the open yard you never notice the smell unless you get your nose close to the blooms, and some have no smell (mostly the hybrids that are seedless are missing fragrance).
Hellebores also bloom in cold windy weather and like daffodils you may not notice the fragrance. But, they have become a much more popular plant since I first planted a few a dozen or so years ago. Takes seedlings 3 years to first bloom.
Those are yellow pear tomatoes, a Ukrainian variety. We make sun dried tomatoes with them. Put the dried tomatoes in a jar with diced garlic, basil, a little salt, then cover in olive oil. Let it sit in the fridge and spoon it onto crusty bread or top pasta with it.
Those tomatoes are good and productive, but I don’t think I’ll grow them again. The smaller yellow pears are better.
Nice grapes. How do you keep birds from eating them? Mine were stripped bare except the ones i had bags over and they were even trying to ripe the bags off the trees (robins and catbirds).
