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The last two winters, I heavily pruned Violi’s and it has a fair amount of blossoms this spring. I planted it in 2014.

This picture is from my yard. A finger of the corn plot runs between plums on the right and 🍎 on the left. There is a waterhole behind the plums and spruce.

A fair amount of my trees are resting this year. One Kerr has loads of blossoms, one very few. Same for Chestnut Crabs. With luck, I may have a fair number of Noran this year and some seedlings have lots of blossoms. I also have some blossoms on Norkent. The corn plot is going in today.

I suspected something like this stalled out some of those I replaced. Live and Learn.

No boat, no pickup, no pile of hunting clothes, who bothers to make a bed…. ;) Maybe he has a hot date lined up.

I wish the hard cider people would look at more of our wild crabs. I think there is a fair amount of disease resistance in them.

My Franklin also held late. It grew very well.

After fruiting for just a year or two, Franklin doesn’t seem too bad for a deer apple. I have it close to the house, so I tried to convert it by top working. If it were outback, I would have just let it grow as is.

I am running out of room to plant trees and also cut back on my grafting. Yesterday, I top worked three varieties. One pear on a Franken Tree. Crow Egg went on my Franklin cider apple which hasn’t impressed me . Pipsqueak crab went on a dolgo seedling. One buddy says Pipsqueak is their...

Two of my favorites and I like chestnut crab best at the end of the ripening period. After just one year of fruiting, I would rate St Edmund’s Russet above chestnut crab for eating.

Nice crabs. How do they taste?

I reused the cement wire to block some paths where deer were crossing behind our box stand. Added brush adds depth to the fence and deer are less likely to jump the 5 foot fence.

Seed was gathered in the late summer of 2008 from a wild crab with fruit of about 1 inch size. Trees were planted in this location in 2010 after growing in containers. They received very minimal care after that. Seventy percent of the seedlings(15-20 total) resemble the mother tree with 3/4-1...

It got a separate cage. Dang Reed canary grass. I did put a fabric barrier around it two years ago.