Recent content by sandbur

Parts of central Minnesota have the same. I have given up on the buckthorn battle in most areas at my age.

Sometimes it seems like tree tubes are a magnet for young bucks as well. They must like the rattle as they destroy them.

Violi’s is slowly dropping fruit and has a small scrape under it. This is a graft from a wild tree that I call Guard Dog. It usually starts dropping about Veterans Day. Noran is holding just a few fruit, but my phone went dead from the cold, so no pictures.

It’s not disease free but has done well with no spray.

Big Doh started it’s heavy drop today. My records show that the drop started on 10-23 last year.

I tasted one tonight. I don’t know all of the fancy terms, but I can eat it. Quite acid. Most people wouldn’t be impressed.

I seem to remember you asking about an applecrab that drops through the middle to end of October. Firecracker is about 80% dropped at this time. Also known as Bill’s Red Flesh.

Sweet Dog would serve as a deer tree. I just finished picking them and stripped the tree in the home orchard. The original tree is in a ‘no go area’ as I posted above. I have frostbite. It rested this year. Just a few apples. I might have one M111. A buddy brought me the Firecracker and...

I need to do a taste test again. This is the first time I have had any amount of fruit in my home orchard. The original tree is in a ‘no go area’ until rifle season. Memory tells me it is only for the deer.

The Buckman Crab looks sharp in the morning sunlight. The wind has knocked a few apples of, but the normal drop hasn’t started yet.

Red Baron is my most heavily dropping tree at this point. Deer nibble at the apples but don’t seem to eat a lot. When I taste them, they have no flavor. Perhaps the deer know the same thing. Firecracker is still dropping but is about 80% finished. Deer are eating these dropped apples.

No. It is from Midwest Deer Trees.

Yellow Belly has grown well for me.

You are welcome. My Chestnut Crabs in the home orchard are about done dropping. I am currently eating Sweet Dog and Snowsweet. Most Haralred and Haralson are being given away for cooking or mixed with the above two for my morning oatmeal. Sweet Dog

I have to add that this was one of our easiest deer retrievals as it ran towards our house and fell about ten yards from our mowed lawn. Fifty yards from the garage where we hang, skin, and debone deer. Still part of the memory.