applesfirst

Winter showed up

New row for the orchard. Disease resistant varieties on Antonovka rootstock to be double worked in the future.

Brew day. English Bitter

Don't think Goldrush likes it here.

Planted small bare root hazelnuts in 2018 and they're finally starting to produce nuts.

#summer

What is this apple? Label mix up. Definitely not a honeycrisp. Could be a Williams Pride maybe. Already on its wa...

I may have overdone it with the garlic.

My first seedling apple, a small green crab. Well shit ...

Seedling hybrid Chestnut. Hopefully blight resistant.

Beech volunteer in the wood chip pile.

5 year old American Persimmon seedlings. Hope they flower in the next couple years.

omg

My first apple seedling blossomed.

More beautiful Maypole blossoms and some of the diagonal cordon.

Future part of the orchard. Mostly disease resistant varieties for a framework.

Apple seedling from 2020 on its own roots blooming for the first time. Lost the tag, but this was from a group of ope...

Idared open pollinated apple seedling. The red fades as the leaves get bigger. I wonder if this will be a crabby or...

Pencil size graft of Wickson blooming. lol

Maypole is such a pretty apple.

Bees are out making some apples.

“Hope” is the thing with feathers -
That perches in the soul -
And sings the tune without the words -
And never s...

Espalier up against a wall blooming first.

before totality

Weather change during the eclipse

#solareclipse

Soil blocking is so much easier planting. Multisown onions going in.

Everything is waking up.

Found a Ukrainian pepper from 2017 I'll try and keep going.

Almost there....

First round of grafts. Starting a double working test batch using disease resistant varieties like Liberty as a fram...

March is like Christmas with all these scions showing up! I wanted Dutch Master just for the beautiful russeting. T...

Swaying in the wind up in the pines.

Nothing like getting new scions in the mail.

Wickson is ready to go.

Such a weird graft heal. Williams Pride on Bud 9.

Nothing like the majestic clear cutting of the road side.

Leek fire? All of my over wintered leeks are infested with some kind of leaf miners. Burn.

Cleaning out the bird houses

Left foil (as winter rodent protection) on the diagonal cordon all last year. So much burr knot. Going to train up ...

Pulling out the invasives. Common or European Buckthorn. Stuff spreads like mad.