These are just some photos documenting what our back yard looks like on this day in late April 2025. It had just had its first mowing when I took them. The building in the background, above left, is the garden shed, which is being taken over by ivy. It's been so wet that all I can do is watch it happen. Above right, the well is decorative. It's just a big planter box. We call it the vrai faux well.
Here are some views of our two remaining apple trees.Two others, one much bigger than these and one much smaller, died a few years ago and had to be cut down. Above left is a view looking back toward our house and our greenhouse from out by the garden shed. The photo in the middle shows the only two apple blossoms that I can find on our surviving trees. I looks like we won't have any apples this year. Above right is another view of the garden shed. The plants that look like bushes in a couple of the photos here are artichokes that come back up every year.
There must have been too much rain for the apple trees to produce this year. Next comes the drought...I hope not.
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DeleteWalt read something that said that apple trees that haven't been pruned in a while sometimes revert to a pattern where they produce applies only every two years, not every year. I wonder too if so much cloudy weather, and so little sunshine for a year now, might have something to do with it.
You still have a lovely yard, and at least you won't have as many/any apples to clean up in the yard, eh? :)
ReplyDeleteAre you two planning on trying to get a vegetable garden going this summer, or has it been too wet for your guy to come and till the plot to start you off?
We might try to have a very small vegetable garden, but the rain will have to stop soon to make that possible.
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DeleteSorry about the anonymous coments to Evelyn and Judy. I don't know how that happened.
My first thought was like Judy’s. Very few, if any, apples for Walt to pick up before mowing. YEA!
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Last year, partly because the weather was so rainy, we just left the apples on the ground under the two trees and let them melt into the soil. Birds, especially blackbirds, seem to enjoy feeding on the apples or on insects that were also feeding on them. They were all gone by March.
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