That’s a heck of a regimen and a variety of products! But you ate getting the results for sure. How often are you applying multiple products at once. For instance in dormant season are you allying kocide and bravo tank mixed or seperatley? I would think you must be tank mixing a lot to keep up with all that huh? Congrats again on the results man all that fruit looks good. Thanks again for your posts.
This is a good week in central Ohio. Today we ate Carmine Jewel cherries (we like tart), red and black raspberries, and blueberries. A huge crop of blackberries will be ripe soon.
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I always have fungaside and insecticides at the same time. No I do not mix kocide and bravo. I use on or the other. I spray In the fall when trees fist go dormant then again when all leaves are off, weather permitting. Then a dormant spray in early spring. I quess I use a commercial spray regiment but here in the part of misouri where I live it is very humid in the summer and without constant protection brown rot sets in and bye bye fruit. I figure if I am going to grow fruit, I am going to grow what I like and unfortunately they are the susceptible kinds. Although I do have some jujube trees and one itchi persimon. I keep my orchard mowed with the yard so I mow on Saturday and spray on sunday so the clover blooms are gone. We have a lot of honey bees around so I do try to protect them.
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Finished the last of the fresh White Gold cherries for breakfast with yogurt
Got more in the freezer, tho
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Last month was awful virtually no sunshine and a lot of showers every day
Today picked raspberries, sweet Cherry, and seedling Aprium Honey Rich not ripe fruit was picked by bird. Despite this misery a little harvest
Cherry Korvic
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Got a batch of Lodi from a local farmstand to satisfy my summer apple craving. Most of them are too tart. Some are pithy.
But this one is pretty good. Snappy, juicy, sour, but with some sweet for balance. Making for a nice snack at work. Best apple? Absolutely no where even close, but every now and then you get one that is passable. They have a white “bloom” that I think is beautiful. Get them while they’re still fairly small and green. If they get too big, or turn yellow, then they’re too far gone.
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I ate my entire apricot harvest today in 30 seconds, two Shalah apricots was all I got. They were huge and absolutely delicious though. The late cold pretty much wiped out the rest.
I am also eating Gold Dust peaches which are fantastic.
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What a awesome day. Honey kist , honey blaze and arctic star nectarine, splash puot, flavor supreme pluot, santa rosa plum. I have almost foundered myself.
Lodi at its peak here… for the next 15 minutes, anyway.
Picked 4 gallon ice cream pails of blueberries yesterday, between showers… ate all the bird-pecked ones as I came across them.
Probably will have the typical 3 gallons of blackberries that I’ve been getting every other day for the past two weeks, again, this afternoon.
Have another apple, ripening now… don’t know what it is… scions were purchased from Joyce Neighbors as ‘Craven Crab’… but it’s not that.
Lawson’s Early June Sugar Pear now ripe. It’s not a great pear - or even a good one - but it is ripe in June/early July!
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Seedling ‘Honey Rich’ ripe by now
comparison between Orangered, not ripe
sweet cherry Samba perfect on time
Seedling Apricot, strange skin
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Two sour cream coffee cakes:
- Blueberry lemon/cinnamon
- Black raspberry dark chocolate swirl
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Ann is a wonderful raspberry! Great looking harvest
I had a few of these Plums from a customer’s tree.Some kind of Cherry Plum,maybe.The flavor was pretty good.The skin wasn’t tart,only a little near the pit. Brady
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Thanks， Clark！this year，my raspberry produced well
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yummy！！
I try to resist buying and eating apples at this time of year, so that those first summer apples are a treat. And there is so much good stone fruit available, especially with the early Missouri peaches showing up here in Iowa. However, I couldn’t pass up a couple of club apples when I was at grocery store.
Yesterday I had a “Smitten” apple for lunch. It has a classic apple flavor with some spiciness that gives it an apple-pie like flavor.
Today I had an “Envy” apple for lunch. Holy banana! The one I had was the most banana-flavored apple I have ever had. It was also very sweet, almost cloyingly so, since it doesn’t seem to have much acid to balance out the sweetness.
The last few days I’ve been eating some plum Cots I bought from Sam’s. They are really dark with dark red wine colored juice. The taste is extremely complex and interesting. My first thought was they tasted like raspberries. So I got on the companies website and Im pretty sure I’m eating Plumagranate plumcots. They are delicious and unlike any pluot I’ve ever had.
Of course there is a hitch. I bought a 4 pound bag and only about half of them have been edible. The good ones are crisp and crunchy and the duds are a watery bland mess. Incredible to see such good fruit mixed with such bad fruit in each bag.
Are they from Family Tree Farms?I first tried the Plumogranates about two years ago and they are only available at a couple markets that I know of locally.Here they are sold by the pound and individually.
Very rich flavored.If there is some this time,I’m going to try and grow some plants by seed. Brady