Dandelions blooming in the yard today.
First spring food for the beesDandelions blooming in the yard today.
Before our apple tree died from old age, it always bloomed early and produced many 5 gallon buckets of apples.Right, ok fair enough… I’m glad the weather and circumstances are considered normal around here.
To be clear: I’m not coming from some weather conspiracy angle
Simply frustrated with the difficulty of growing fruit lol. Surely there are some solutions? Wrap them in plastic before the freeze hit’s maybe?
from the below link:I had an apricot tree. It was here when I moved in. It was a pretty little tree. I lived here 10 years before I knew it was an apricot. It lived another 10 years, and I think it made fruit about 3 times in that 20 years. Then it died, and I cut it up and used it to smoke pork ribs.
The times it did make fruit, they would start to ripen, then in about 2 days they were all ripe and in 3 days they were all on the ground. You didn't wanna ignore it for more than about 12 hours when it had fruit. I learned that the hard way.
I recommend looking at OSU's data on fruit trees.
https://extension.okstate.edu/fact-sheets/home-fruit-planting-guide.html
Also selecting by fruiting time can help with selecting late blooming varieties that are less likely to be caught by freeze.
Also plant at.least.2 varieties for better harvest, even self fertile trees like peaches will benefit from a pollinator.
Apricots can be successfully dwarfed using a bush cherry rootstoxk. That said my former apricot was on the coast and died due to salt air. Currently I am tryingfrom the below link:View attachment 351850
This is EXACTLY what I experienced with the apricot that was on my place. It was incredibly pretty when it bloomed, and it bloomed every year. I really think it only made fruit about 3 times in the 20 years it was here, and I was able to pick some of them once.
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