A huge success with our first home-grown apple.
Yes, ‘apple’; singular. In fairness, the tree was free so perhaps we shouldn’t be expecting too much. We bought three and got another one thrown in at no cost. The crab apple variety cropped fairly for its size, which is more than can be said for the cherry and apricot trees, which were barren this year. Perhaps they’ll do better next year.
The eating apple tree remains by far the smallest of the lot. You could think it was a stick if you didn’t look carefully, but it produced the heaviest single fruit of anything in the garden. The apple on the left here represents the entirety of our home-grown crop. The one on the right is one of the apples we buy from the market for our lunches each week.
It tasted fantastic. Sweet and juicy, with none of the powderyness you sometimes get with a particularly large fruit.
Whatever we need to feed it to get a better crop next year, you can bet we’ll be trying it.
I wonder if it would appreciate some fertiliser from the chickens.
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Hi
One is a start! We didn’t get any from our tree as the birds tucked into the three that were there.
I’m not lucky with fruit trees – must keep trying though
Rgds
Sam