By how the Double Red Delicious Apple and Kieffer Pear are flowering, I should have a lot of fruit this year. These older trees usually produce fruit every year.
Category Archives: Fruit
Wall-O-Water
Trying out the Wall-O-Water on some tomato plants…. …but a wall of wind won that round.
Peach Flowers
After an amazing harvest of more than a thousand pounds of peaches last year, I am only seeing a few peach flowers. The winter not only killed flower buds, but also killed some branches and trees outright.
Mantis Egg Invasion
I have been buying mantis egg cases the past few seasons to help with insect pests. The female mantises made a lot of egg cases last fall. Now that the leaves have fallen off the bamboo, I can see these Asian insects spent some time in this familiar grass.
Zestar! Apple
My Zestar Apple had its first apple last year. Maybe this year more blooms equals more apples.
Carmine Jewel Cherry
I bought a Carmine Jewel Cherry a few years ago and cut it in half and created two bushes. Last year was the first year they fruited, though the birds ate them all. Hopefully this year the flowers create enough cherries for both the birds and me.
Firecracker Crabapple Flowering
My Firecracker Crabapple is flowering for the first time. The crabapples on this tree suppose to have red flesh.
Cinco de Mayo
The Staghorn Sumac trees(Rhus typhina) continue to hang onto their fruit clusters into the spring.
Blue Velvet Honeyberry
The Honeyberry looks like it really wants to create fruit. These small bushes have flowers in pairs, so pollination is more likely.
Apple Flea Beetle
I saw a lot of green beetles chewing on apple leaves. They are called Apple Flea Beetles and jump when my hand got near them.