Mystery apple with missing tag. I’m almost positive it is a zabergau reinette, but have only gotten 1 apple off it so far. I am tempted to graft a known zabergau scion onto it and compare. #grafting. #apples#orchard
Yesterday was a seriously foggy and rainy day. My husband and I stopped for donuts at Soons Farms, an apple orchard and vegetable farm in New Hampton, NY. The bare trees reminded me of a Hitchcock movie.
Did I already post this? Doesn't matter. It's grafting season and I'm going to post it again for all of you who need it. Grafting is the best way to get exactly the tree you want.
I have a home #apple#orchard of 6 trees, and it has been our custom to have a wassailing celebration for the trees on 12th night to thank the trees for the harvest and to encourage a new crop in the spring. We simply stand by the oldest tree and sing "Here We Come A Wassailing" and share a bottle of hard cider amongst us and the trees. I know this pales in comparison with many fine old traditions and I would LOVE to hear about how you #wassail your trees! #gardening #allotment #solstice
It's time to pick apples. Here's what I'm calling the spitz, or Esopus Spitzenburg apples picked off the two trees. Maybe about 13 gallons or 50 liters in volume.
A mystery apple from possibly a volunteer seedling, or the tree it was growing under has an odd root stock.
Could be an Esopus Spitzenburg cross. Used to be a tree here, timing might line up if it lingered in the unmowed area till it was big enough to see years after the 'spitz' was gone. It does have the look of the spits so it could just be one that somehow came up true to seed under a different tree.
It's hard, crisp, and has a long stem. Tastes good.
Apple 'Poppit Persawrws'. There's a windswept tree by the lifeboat station at the popular tourist spot of Poppit Sands and the apples taste of bubblegum. Discovered by orchardist Martin Hayes, he registered the apple whilst working for the St Dogmael's Orchard Project.
The tree has probably grown from an apple discarded by a holidaymaker many years ago. 'Persawrws' means aromatic in Welsh.
I couldn't leave my #orchard theme behind without posting a picture of some of our #produce. However, I couldn't decide whether to go with #apples or #pears, so I've ended up with both.
On the left, we have Russet apples, and those are Conference pears on the right.
'Russeting' is the "partial or complete coverage of a fruit with rough patches of greenish-brown to yellowish-brown colour". Both these varieties exhibit 'russeting'.
This is an experiment with Mastodon threads. I post loads of plant photos here and thought that I might be able to organise them by garden using sub-threads.
Every time I add a photo, I’ll edit the head post of that garden thread, so if you like the head post, you’ll automatically get a notification.
I say orchard. There are 2 plum trees 'Early Prolific' & 'Late Victoria', 2 cherries 'Sunburst' & 'Merton Glory', Blackcurrants, Redcurrants and a Chokeberry (Aronia melanocarpa), which replaced the poor Saskatoon (Amelanchier alnifolia) as it was way too dry.
In the orchard is stands of one of my favourite #NativePlants Bugle (Ajuga reptans). Makes a lovely ground cover in the right conditions.
Also in the #orchard is an old tree stump, and entwined around it is a honeysuckle. I think it’s a native Lonicera periclymenum but don’t know for sure. Whatever, looks and smells gorgeous early/mid summer.
You can get smaller cultivars of the native Honeysuckle for smaller gardens, something like 'Rhubarb & Custard'. And you smell it before you see it, absolutely gorgeous.
Google Lens can't identify this. Can #Mastodon#garden#gardeners ? It was definitely a tree in an orchard, with these red fruit, that inside had seeds like an apple does ( not a stone) #tree#orchard#uk at Sissinghurst Castle #fruit
New York's beautiful Hudson Valley is a wonderful place to visit. So many things to see and explore. We went to Seminary Hills over the weekend, beautiful setting in Calicoon.