Is there a reason you grafted your mulberry so close to the ground/
@highdesertheritage, virginia was good last year even though i think it was picked a little early due to squirrel pressure and brushy mountain is also a good eating apple but my favorite right now is Ben Lamand.
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Been a while since the last update, but I suppose the solstice is a time for reflection.
Top pics are fully ripened Tull apples. Excellent size, my largest over 14oz, with a very distinctive flavor. I expect these to be favorites at our farmers market and definitely at my house.
I even grafted 3 new standard trees to bring the total on the farm to 5.
In the fyi category, I brought close to 15 different varieties to markets this year. Had customers return looking for Arkcharm, Wilson June, Roxbury Russet, but by far the most requested and what I describe as a starry eyed apple was not an heirloom, but Bonkers/NY-35.
Other pic shows some of the different varieties I grow. This was really the first year I’ve had an appreciable amount fruit. Already looking forward to a total eclipse and next springs grafting.
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Great job!
And I suspect the Bonkers apple could be a fine roadside market apple…but it’s hard to get more names in a supermarket unless some fall out of favor.
Excellent pix of the Tull, also.
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Good to hear from you Blue!
My Redfield trees I grew from the scions you sent will be moving up to the farm soon as will the gooseberries.
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Seems to be hard to get a crop on Redfield. Blooms early and freezes, plum curculio seem to prefer it, leaders are crooked at strange angles, etc. But, it’s a colorful tree, and I did get one good crop the second year my tree bloomed. (I have pruning to do on the tree again, soon.) Also have an extra tree in a pot of Redfield.
If it makes jelly and doesn’t require pectin, that may be my use for this apple in future years. As I expect to have other red fleshed apples I like better to eat. It also has colorful juice.
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