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#fruittrees

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WA prides itself on resources and agriculture, but what role can the humble apple play?
By Grace Burmas

The success of a unique variety of West Australian apple that in three years has become the state's biggest apple export, could pave the way for further varieties to hit supermarket shelves.

abc.net.au/news/2025-05-23/suc

ABC News · The success of Bravo as Westerm Australia's most popular apple export could pave the way for more varietiesBy Grace Burmas
#Agriculture#FruitTrees#FoodandDrink
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Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸

OMG GUYS
We have so many Apples 🍎 🍏 forming on our two juvenile (as opposed to newly planted) apple trees!! The Blushing Delight Columnar has the most. It is the most vigorous though and most protected from the wind, but the Northern Spy has many as well!!

This is the first year any of our new trees since the pandemic have borne fruit.

Small oblong slightly purple orbs form at the end of small stems with the apple flour tip. There are many bunches. All interspersed with large green leaves.
#apples#fruit#fruittrees
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Ari Gardens as a Verb

Updated with photo, for what it's worth.

I got out yesterday after work and wrapped my fruit trees and currant bush, but I forgot about my raspberry and gooseberry bushes (luckily it didn't end up freezing last night). I don't have any way to get any sort of cover over them, and it is supposed to be in the 20sF early tomorrow, Tuesday morning.

I'm not what sure do. I guess I could set an alarm for some time in the middle of the night to check the temperature, then if it is trending below 30°F, run the hose spray over the bushes, hopefully making ice that would coat their leaves at 32°F rather than dipping below that.

Another option would be to put one of my temperature sensors out near the berry bushes to see what kind of microclimate I've got there, and then if that drops, protect them with the water. Those bushes are generally more protected by structures and the lay of the land than everything is out front. Maybe that area won't hit the freezing mark?

This is #Kansas, so I'm used to losing fruit crops because the weather in April didn't cooperate.

This dip tonight means we likely won't get any peaches or pears from local trees unless farmers go to extremes to try to keep those from freezing. I don't remember having Kansas peaches more than one time over the last 10 years because of April freezes.

Peaches seem to be the most sensitive, which is part of why I've never planted a peach tree. 😞

A sunny and bright native plant filled front garden in which you can see two covered raised beds, a small cherry tree with a pillowcase over it, my plum tree with a cardboard box around the trunk and a sheet taped over that with blue tape, and my giant clove current bush with two large cardboard boxes around the base and a mattress pad taped over the top. I'm leaving these covered today in spite of the warmer afternoon because it's supposed to be a lot colder tonight. Also in the shot are my gorgeous, single-trunked redbud tree that I've babied and pruned to this shape since it was a foot tall (they get weird and gnarly if your don't), and the Ukraine flag flying the flag pole angling diagonally off the porch. On the left of the shot is just a glimpse of the old ornate porch pillar on which the flag flies and at the top of the shot is a glimpse of very faded Tibetan prayer flags. I direct people to my house with the simple phrase, "it is the one with all the flags on it." Not pictured are my Gilbert Baker design pride flag, and my United Federation of Planets flag. No Doubt if Google maps were updated, you'd be able to find me easily. Heh. Secret pass phrase is: I've got nothing but Fedi for you.
#Gardening#FruitTrees
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Tom

An air layering attempt on the old Santa Rosa plum. Harvested the sphagnum moss from the rock seen in the background. Now we wait.

Yes, I could just buy another Santa Rosa plum but then it's not THIS plum. This also ignores the fact that the chances of getting the same plum is near zero because "looks like" is more important than "actually is" in the buy a plant world these days.

A photo showing a small limb on a plum tree that has had a blob of plastic and rubber added to it. What created this was freshly harvested sphagnum moss mixed with some dirt that came along with it and a little dirt and wood ash, then soaked in water. This was secured around the de-barked limb with some narrow plastic wrap and then it was covered with some wide plastic wrap to make 3 layers. The top and bottom was sealed with some splicing tape. The whole thing wrapped tight with narrow wrap, then more splicing tape on the ends. The goal is to retain the moisture of the sphagnum moss for a couple of months if it takes that long.
#gardening#orchard#PlumTree
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Tom

The Comice pear, the oldest Gravenstein apple, an early blooming peach grown from seed, and the Harcot Apricot. I saw quite a few apricots blooming when I was out and about today. The Japanese type plum here is a couple of warm days away from starting to bloom and it doesn't look like it's died much more. It's more than 50 years old.

A photo showing likely flower buds on a Comice pear tree. There are skinny pointy leaves and some bigger ones with a cluster of squiggly twisted yellow and light green things in the middle.
A photo showing flower buds on a Gravenstein apple tree. They are silvery green with some red highlights in a cluster.
A photo showing pink/red flower buds on a peach tree that has grown from seed. It's an early blooming type of peach which makes it susceptible to frost.
A photo showing apricot blossoms, only one blossom is fully open, some are partially open but most of the buds are still closed. The flowers are pinkish and the buds are dark red.
#gardening#GrowYourOwn#orchard
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Homestead Culture

You don't have to deer fence your entire property or orchard to grow fruit and nut trees.

After tempting the deer to eat leaves from hundreds of trees, from dozens of species, I learned so much about what I can get away with and what I can't.

🦌 Learn more in the link 👇🏼 and be sure to grab the sale, which is this week only 🙌🏻
homesteadculture.com/protect-t

#deerresistant#foodforest#homesteading
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Carson Hill 📎

I was feeling under the weather today so I took a nap instead of a walk. When I got home from work, our thundercloud #plum tree greeted me the best way it could.

Here's the first blossom of the season!

Tomorrow and the days that follow will yield more, but this was the first one (at least, the first near the ground) that opened up to say hi.

Thankful for small joys like this.

A single open plum blossom, pink and new, at the end of a narrow branch with a lichen-coated trunk out of focus behind it. Several other buds are about to open, to keep it company soon.
#sakura#plumblossom#bloomscrolling
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