When my friend Phil was here to trim the fruit trees with me, he told me there would be a lot of fruit this year and to make sure that I take off a lot of it to ensure a good crop. Today was the day. At first it is difficult to pick off fruit (I love peaches and apricots) and the trees were loaded. But I understand that a tree can only support so much or it will produce lots of tiny fruit with large stones. It is a bit like Christmas shopping: buying that first present takes the most time, after that spending gets easier.
So far I have only tackled one peach tree and the apricot. The other peaches are still too small, as are the apples. In spite of taking off all this
there will still be a lot of fruit to ripen. Hopefully there will be enough to share with the birds and the insects as they will be there first.
2 comments:
That's a significant difference! Wonder if ther is anything you can do with the unripe ones? Like jelly? Cant wait to see a ripe apricot.
The ones I took off are really small, and hard. I contemplated giving them to the chickens or horses, but think everybody would get a belly ache.
It's you and me both on that ripe apricot :-).
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