Thursday, May 13, 2010

Fruit Trees?

I think we have an apple tree! I'm no expert...but this little thing sure does look like an itty bitty apple in the making.


I took a closer look at all of our trees...we definitely have a few mulberry trees (but I'm totally grossed out to even try those...looks like the birds licked all of them). And I think there are pear trees, too! Yum...I hope! The trees need desperate pruning, so who knows how yuck the fruit is going to be.

5 comments:

  1. LOL, good luck with the fruit trees! I have a wonderful Mulberry in the yard, fruit is delicious! We also get a few self-seeded mulberry seedlings which I dig up and sell for pure profit (minus the $1 pot)! It's pretty good. I'd kill for an apple tree!!!

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  2. Hooray for fruit trees! I personally LOVE mulberries, but it could be a sentimental thing--I spent hours as a child beneath my grandma's mulberry tree, eating berries and getting my fingers and bare feet stained purple from the juice. Ah, the memories...

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  3. Besides the birds having tasted what looks like every berry there, I think I am afraid to try them because the tree most likely hasn't ever been pruned. And so there are gobs of fruit everywhere...I have a feeling they might taste badly. And I saw a bug! Haha! Bugs are gross to me. :) Perhaps I just need some good ol' mulberry training to feel more confident in knowing how to work with them.

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  4. ohhh, that is such a cool tree to have! i would be tempted to take a small bite and just see how it tasted. i never knew that pruning was necessary for fruit trees. good to know!

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  5. I don't have the same temptation, because I bet there isn't much flavor and that it is very sour and puckery tasting! I am pretty sure that trimming helps the fruit to get bigger and more tasty. But I am not an expert by any means.

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