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A good year for apples?
Posted: Sun May 19, 2013 5:32 pm
by alan refail
Unlike the past few years most of my apple trees are as blowsy with blossom as a Japanese cherry. Warm days and mild nights at last have brought out the pollinators, so hopefully a good set and a good harvest. This is my Enlli which has sulked for years finally showing some life.
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Re: A good year for apples?
Posted: Sun May 19, 2013 5:43 pm
by Clive.
...and a couple of photos from work.
Clive.
Re: A good year for apples?
Posted: Sun May 19, 2013 5:46 pm
by alan refail
I'll take that as a Yes, then, Clive
Re: A good year for apples?
Posted: Sun May 19, 2013 5:54 pm
by Clive.
...best not to count chickens, etc, etc just yet..
Here's one I wanted to get pruned this Winter...but time eluded us...the shape of old is still there but it has escaped skywards......
...and another view of the North half of the pergola...first in the line is Lord Lambourne left and Rev. W. Wilks on the right....
Clive.
Re: A good year for apples?
Posted: Sun May 19, 2013 6:00 pm
by Motherwoman
Beautiful blossom. What happened to the plum blossom this year? Mine didn't do anything.
Alan, is that the family privvie behind the apple? Great looking building!
MW
Re: A good year for apples?
Posted: Sun May 19, 2013 6:04 pm
by alan refail
Motherwoman wrote:Alan, is that the family privvie behind the apple? Great looking building!
MW
Combined lav (to left) and ex-pigsty (to right)
Re: A good year for apples?
Posted: Sun May 19, 2013 7:42 pm
by Motherwoman
Holes in the door...dead giveaway! We've got a singleton outdoor privvie now used to store kindling. And yes, it is attached to what was the pig sty and is now a general food store. Rural buildings were very practical.
Re: A good year for apples?
Posted: Sun May 19, 2013 7:43 pm
by peter
alan refail wrote:Combined lav (to left) and ex-pigsty (to right)
Ok, provided the pigs don't mind the smell.
Re: A good year for apples?
Posted: Mon May 20, 2013 8:05 am
by Shallot Man
Planted a Christmas Pippin apple on the lottie. No signs of bloom yet. Any idea's !
Re: A good year for apples?
Posted: Mon May 20, 2013 9:10 am
by alan refail
How old is it?
Re: A good year for apples?
Posted: Mon May 20, 2013 2:04 pm
by Shallot Man
alan. About three yrs.
Re: A good year for apples?
Posted: Mon May 20, 2013 2:27 pm
by alan refail
May be next year or the year after
Re: A good year for apples?
Posted: Mon May 20, 2013 3:43 pm
by Geoff
No idea!
Lanes Prince Albert today.
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- and May 22nd 2010
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Mind the Grenadier looks even worse!
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Re: A good year for apples?
Posted: Mon May 20, 2013 4:19 pm
by Monika
Our one apple tree, a "family tree" with three varieties, is on the point of flowering, bird cherries (of which we have two huge trees) and amelanchier are flowering beautifully, but where are the insects? We see an occasional bumble bee or even a honey bee but very, very few.
I do hope it won't be like last year when the broad beans were full of flowers but had a lousy set because of the lack of insects.
Good luck with your apples, everybody!
Re: A good year for apples?
Posted: Mon May 20, 2013 6:16 pm
by Colin Miles
I have 8 cordon apples and Tom Putt is in full blossom, Sunset is thinking about it - usually the first - and the rest are lagging well behind.
I hope you do have good pollination Alan cause here I hardly see any insects.
And I dug up my gooseberry bush (pax) yesterday. Suffered badly from sawfly 2 years ago and the cold winter and possibly the mole have finished it off.
George Cave, Sunset ,Ashmeads Kernel, Claygate Pearmain, Grenadier, Tom Putt, Lane’s Prince Albert, Bardsey