Apple Trees

rusty6 · Jun 1, 2019

Kind of amazing how these old apple trees survive with no care or maintenance for years. I noticed this one blooming nicely today so
had to stop and take a picture of it beside the old house.

Bruce from Can. · Jun 2, 2019

Wild Apple trees are in full bloom here in Ontario right now. Some produce apples that are good to eat, some make good pie. Others are good for nothing, just little hard dry nuggets. We have a couple trees that every two years give us some nice fruit. Fence row apples

rusty6 · Jun 2, 2019

(quoted from post at 07:51:00 06/02/19) Wild Apple trees are in full bloom here in Ontario right now. Some produce apples that are good to eat, some make good pie. Others are good for nothing, just little hard dry nuggets. We have a couple trees that every two years give us some nice fruit. Fence row apples

No wild apple trees here although i see a few volounteer ones that seem to have sprung up from seed. This one used to produce an edible fruit. A little bit bigger than the crab apples I think. I'll have to try and remember to check it in August when they normally have something worth picking.

55 50 Ron · Jun 2, 2019

Are those birds on the house peak? Or maybe part of a bad chimney? What's the story of the house if you would like to tell us? Probably has lots of stories if it could talk.

55 50 Ron · Jun 2, 2019

Hopefully you're getting some rain. Weather radar shows rain from southwest SK crossing over Regina and moving on to the northeast. That should give you SOME rain.

rusty6 · Jun 2, 2019

(quoted from post at 09:44:27 06/02/19) Are those birds on the house peak? Or maybe part of a bad chimney? What's the story of the house if you would like to tell us? Probably has lots of stories if it could talk.

Since you ask Ron, that was the first homestead shack built on my mother's side of the family. My great uncles Ernest and Arthur built it in 1905 (I think). Vertical poplar logs with willow withes over that and then plaster on top. It got a rebuild in 1967 but that is a long time ago and weather and raccoons are damaging it.

Billy NY · Jun 2, 2019

I have a similar situation here. Old pasture that has been left and overgrown, is loaded with apple trees, same kind of assortment too. It is really something when they all bloom together, the valley just saturates with the sweet aroma. This year it was kind of staged, the weather staggered them out, so the period of bloom was longer. The 2 hives of honeybees I have going made good use of it and what is following, and last time I checked, I needed to put on the 2nd hive body, did that right away. Some are sweeter than others, most are huge, some medium size, and some are good to eat, others vary in sweetness. In '15, Apricots, Pears, and Apples, including one tree I planted in '79,produced a bumper crop. There were so many apples on the ground, eventually the entire hillside and valley reeked of vinegar for weeks. Must have been the hard winter before, lot of snow and cold winter of '14-'15.

Kickinbull · Jun 2, 2019

Growing up on our family farm in Michigan, we had several different kinds of wild apple trees. Then Dad planted some of his own. Here in Kentucky we?ve asked if anyone has seen a wild apple tree. Nope. I know of a wild peach, but it?s about done.
Apparently Johnny Apple Seed didn?t make it through here.

rusty6 · Jun 2, 2019

(quoted from post at 11:29:34 06/02/19) Hopefully you're getting some rain. Weather radar shows rain from southwest SK crossing over Regina and moving on to the northeast. That should give you SOME rain.

Not a drop yet although it has clouded over a bit this evening and I'm watching some showers form up West of me on radar. I'd bet they will deflect and go either North or South of me just like they have all spring.

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