Crabapple timeline

[H20fwler]

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Bastian’s Orange Flesh is just starting to drop. The taste is sweet but slightly astringent. I hope I have that term right.

ORANGE FLESH! Dang it Sandbur........

Visiting this thread I feel like a crack head in a crack house

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Not fruit tree related, but I will throw the picture on here since I have no longer updated the Sandbox Land Tour.

My wife spends lots of time taking care of the flowers around this old building. Bandit is the Supervisor.

I love that building, have seen pics of it a few other times that you have posted it up...flat out awesome. Tell your wife great job on the flowers too!

 

[marlin]

Visiting this thread I feel like a crack head in a crack house

In my opinion crabapple timeline is the best thread on the Internet.

 

[Teeder]

Looks like the migra

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Not fruit tree related, but I will throw the picture on here since I have no longer updated the Sandbox Land Tour.

My wife spends lots of time taking care of the flowers around this old building. Bandit is the Supervisor.

What's the story on the old building?

 

[sandbur]

Looks like the migra

What's the story on the old building?

Family members of the previous owners thought it had been a smokehouse. It was full of junk when we bought the farm, about 38 years ago.

There was an auction after the bachelor/ owner died.

 

[sandbur]

A doe and a fawn were eating under the chestnut crab. Then the headed to a Prairie Magic.

Now these two does are scrapping over territory in front of the house. One fawn is visible far right. Chasing and pawing at each other. Chasing the other’s fawns .

We have a cold front and they are active.

 

[BuckSutherland]

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Question.., if almost at age 71 and still planting acorns and plums, is it called Optimism or Senility?

;)

I turned 45 yesterday. Every time I plant something I wonder if I will be around to see it make anything. I'm already planting stuff and its not for me. Its for those that will come after me. I hope to keep planting until they plant me.

 

[sandbur]

I turned 45 yesterday. Every time I plant something I wonder if I will be around to see it make anything. I'm already planting stuff and its not for me. Its for those that will come after me. I hope to keep planting until they plant me.

Good attitude!

 

[Bowsnbucks]

I turned 45 yesterday. Every time I plant something I wonder if I will be around to see it make anything. I'm already planting stuff and its not for me. Its for those that will come after me. I hope to keep planting until they plant me.

Just as a consolation, Buck - the fruit trees we planted in 2013 have been producing decent crops for about 5 years now, with last year being a banner year for apples & crabs at our place. This year - again loaded. So we began getting production after 7 years. Whatever you planted this year .... you'd see some kind of production when you're 52, and I'm sure you have stuff already planted for several years. Even our evergreens get decent size in 7 years - from 15" seedlings to 7-foot trees in that time. Oak trees are just slow growers - that's just how they are. I won't see acorns on some of the oaks I've planted, but the younger guys in camp will benefit.

So ....... r-e-l-a-x, friend - and plant away!!! SLN has tee-shirts that say, "Plant Until You're Planted." A good mantra, IMO. Have a couple cold ones after a day of planting / habitat work! All good.

 

[KY wild]

For what it is worth, I have been getting pretty good production from pear trees after 5 years. So maybe plant a hand full of pears to speed up the rewards, at least in my climate

 

[bigboreblr]

Good attitude!

A few years ago a member at camp joined. 78 years old.

 

[sandbur]

I went for a walk and snapped a bunch of pictures. Now trying to remember the names.


Linda Sweet. Not ripe yet.

 

[sandbur]

Dolgo seedling that someone on here helped me name it Clowns Nose. Not ripe yet, but deer bed under it.

 

[sandbur]

Dolgo seedling I call Red Dog. They are ripe and I should pick a few as the taste is pretty decent.

 

[sandbur]

Called ABC. Art’s Berry Crab. At a certain time of ripeness it has a berry flavor. I have it tagged as a seedling from a wild tree, but the fruit is like an elongated dolgo.

 

[sandbur]

Sweet Dog.

 

[sandbur]

Yellow Dog. Small and a late dropper. Not one to eat.

 

[sandbur]

Big Dog. Not ripe and not an eater.

 

[sandbur]

Buckman Crab is loaded but far from ripe.

 

[sandbur]

Seedling I called Platte River Pippin. Produces lots of deer food about every other year. Seedling from wild crab and the best one of 5 or 6 in a row.

 

[sandbur]

Kerr Crab