The crabapple tree has really come into its own this year. Last year it gave us enough apples to look good when in fruit and to make a small quantity of jam, but this year it really went to town.
The top branches were bent right over with the weight of the delicate pink and green fruits, and as I picked them off and each bough got lighter it slowly straightened itself up, like an old man with an aching back.
I’d never have guessed that such a small tree, which we only transplanted three years ago, and which has only six branches, each no more than a centimetre thick at the fattest point, could have proved so bountiful.
I picked more than 400 apples in all, and more than filled the jam pan. A few wonderfully sweet-smelling days lie ahead as I boil them all into jam.
Crabapples in the jam pan
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just read the story of the bullied hen
I have heard of this disemboweling but luckily never seen it!!!!
Oh my goodness! We have an old and sadly neglected crab apple tree. It gets a lot of fruit but nothing this big. Ok, time to prune, compost and make our tree feel loved so she will produce big fruit too
lol