it must be the invasive one that grows wild here then but coloration is the same as the native. blue is most common but white, pink and some purples are in there too. i have the fancy dual color ones growing in my ditches right now. they get up to 4ft tall and have huge flowers.
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I agree, its like torture when you haven’t had fruit in the past. Some of my apples are fruiting for the first time and I’m really hating taking off the extras.
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I’ve thinned to half a dozen on my Odysso…and not certain even those are going to survive the ‘drop’. But, those on the ‘Frankentree’ are sizing up (if the birds don’t steal them for cherries).
I thinned some on the first-year trees…one apple per limb is enough. The mature trees just have to let nature take it and remove 1,000 apples or more.
Other than that…got the hose out…it’s dry here too.
And need to carry water to other trees a.s.a.p. before they wither away!
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Such a lovely place!
its turning out the same here. warming into the 70’s with several weak showers that just barely wet the ground. started watering the potted stuff this am.
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Share your pain. I do several runs of thinnings. It is difficult for me when it is thinned down to three per cluster. All good size and perfect pears left but have to pick one out. It is even more difficult after only two per cluster and one must go .
Apricot is difficult to grow here due to late spring frost and diseases/pests. This is my first year that I have good looking and good size apricots on the grafted branch (my apricot tree was dead last year after 8~9 year of struggling). I finally picked one fruitlet off the branch after spending several minutes trying to decide which ones to thin. Oh well, I do one at a time to ease my pain, or to have prolonged pain.
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I finished planting out row 5, a total of 242 trees, all hand dug. Paul put the backhoe on the tractor for me and I dug about 15-20 holes (newbie on the backhoe). Seems to be working well. Pears up next, I’ll get them transplanted and evaluate if I need to stop until fall.
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All ‘hand dug’. Not I’m reading. And no blisters either I bet.
242 trees over 2 weeks, 56 trees in row 5 in 2 days. And no blisters.
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Shovel? Dibble bar? KBC bar? Just curious, and the answer I imagine rests on how big your roots were…
THose are all amazing photos and very much show what I think of when I think of France, especially Provence. @mrsg47 you need to post more photos of your new home area! I’d like to see the market (you did post some market photos tho), the architecture of houses, fields of flowers, the business district, and so on. I know you aren’t crazy about posts filled with countless photos, but inquiring minds and eyes want to see! ha
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Just a shovel, but had the Reckon Bar on hand. Trees are anywhere from this years bench graft to 2018 grafts that have been in the nursery bed (took longer to get the orchard site cleared than expected). From a digging standpoint, I’m fortunate to be working with sandy Adirondack soil with very few rocks.
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I picked a quart of cherries last Tuesday…not ripe as I’d like, but I’ve not been back…and 6 or 7 days later there’d be none…due to birds. Odysso apples done plucked at that location…birds probably.
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That’s interesting. It looks a little like woolly oak gall. I think it’s caused by a wasp, and should be harmless. But I am not 100% certain
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Melindas divorce team is bringing out the best news!
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Picked a few cherries today. They could’ve hung longer but we are going out of town for Memorial Day so we snatched a few.
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Yum! What’s the variety?
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Carmine jewel mostly. A few of each sweet cherry - Rainer, Craig’s crimson, Utah giant, Benton, black gold, and Stella. Still waiting to taste Attika.
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