I love fruit trees. We have lived here 12 years and we planted our first fruit tree that first year. We added a new one every year for the first 5 years. The last year we did berry bushes and grapes. Now they are a lot of fun to watch them grow and bear fruit.
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| We don't have a lot of apples this year....but the ones we have are always tasty. |
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Here is when my aPpLeS were just starting to grow from the flower buds....
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| Here's the APPLE TREE, (and my little Boston Terrier, Bruce) |
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We had put in lots of years of care on the fruit trees years ago, and they are finally FINALLY, starting to produce....not lots of stuff mind you...maybe a FEW BOWLS of fruits per tree....but it's yummy and very fascinating to watch those trees just do their "thang".
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| Concord gRaPeS....I'll do a post on how to make grape jelly SOON! Or how about Grape Juice? Yum! |
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| Grape gardens are getting bigger and they look pretty yummy too! |
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| I have green grapes and concord grapes and they grow organically every year without me doing too much with them! |
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| Nectarine tree....looking almost ripe! |
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| The lone nectarine...I hope birds don't get it before I do! |
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| Well, it's my own fault I waited too long for these nectarines and some birdies got the top one! Darn! |
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| My peaches did the best of all the fruit trees this year. I have about 6 bags frozen so far and have made peach crisp twice already!
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We have an apple , a peach and nectarine, and an apricot tree. None of them ever have done really fantastic, except the apple. I think our soil is kinda sandy. The yard needs constant care with veggie gardens and 2 ponds, flower beds and all. And I'm getting so lazy. But today I picked peaches!
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Peaches on the peach tree....really nice this year!
I made some yummy peach crisp at Weekday Chef. my other blog. Check it out! |
No black thumb here. I love this tree. It is my favorite fruit tree in the whole garden. The Peach tree a great shade tree too.
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| Ya gotta have some wind chimes..... |
We are lazy weeders. I just want it to look good and I want to have fresh fruits...... and beautiful things everywhere....but I don't want to worry about it!
I don't ask for much do I?
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| It's been fun to pick the apricots too...we eat these right up. I never have to make jam out of them... (I let my mom-in-law do that....sneaky me). |
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| Wow, do you think the hubs got my good side in this awful picture? I think I'm gonna fire as my photog. |
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aPrIcOtS and cute little granddaughters in the hammock!
Marissa and Megan make the cutest addition to the garden, don't they? Love those girls! They are the "apples" of my eye! |
Let's go eat some apricots grandma! I just LOVE these. Maybe we could do fruit leather?
I'll have to look into getting a fruit dehydrator.
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| And my lillies all came up. They turned out beautiful too! |
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| My berry bushes....just starting to ripen! |
We fixed up a place down by the jacuzzi for seating too. It's suddenly become a fun place to hang out again!
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Under the deck by the jacuzzi...brightly colored, motion-detection
lighting at night made it more inviting! |
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| My friend Paula, in California, is growing a Mango tree. How fun is THAT! I used to have oranges and lemons in my yard in California. Man I so didn't appreciate my weather and growing season back then. |
I would LOVE it! But in the meantime, I'll take my apricots, peaches, nectarines, apples and grapes. And I planted blackberry bushes this year. They are already sprouting too. Let's see what tomorrow brings! Ain't nature grand? In spite of my failings as a gardener, I have plants that give back to me. And that makes me so happy.
