05/02/2021
Guess what guys!!!!
My apple trees are of fruit bearing age!!!!
I just found a bunch of lovely buds yesterday on May Day, it was also my husbands birthday so an extra special treat.
Keep your fingers crossed for me though, I still have to make it through an entire grow season and leap hurdles like pollination and potential fungal infections. Like every other inch of my yard, these trees will be grown chemically free.
If they produce well at the end of the year I plan on getting more during the end of the year clearance sales at my local nurseries m. I got these for $20 each. Locally grown! (I am currently finding out about the chemicals, if any, used to grow up until I took them home.)
I also just planted a beauty berry bush Yesterday and I have wild huckleberry shrubs coming in this fall.
Add that to the 4 types of elder berries, 2 kinds of blueberries, 15 black cap raspberries (All wild grown when I let nature take my yard back they all popped up and they all taste different) and dogwood berries (cornus Kousa, a species of Kousa a.k.a dogwood tree berries are edible all other kinds are toxic, please do not just eat your Kousa/dogwood tree berries!!!)
I hope to expand into making jam. I need to hound my friend Amelia at Black Sun Farm to show me how to jar things. She makes incredible queen anNd lace jam. I won’t be selling jam as a business so you really need to add her to your contacts list for the best and most creative sandwich spreads and snacks. She just made Forsythia flower jam!!! Ask her about her dilly beans too. Best sandwich snack I ever had!