autumn fruit

[sidelock]

I have no fruit trees. Something I should have planted 20 years ago. BUT thanks to neighbors and friends we have been well stocked with abundance. Apples (3 kinds) plumbs (2 kinds) cherries, and pears. People in the Bitterroot are the best I have ever known.

 

[coloradoclyde]

“A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.” -Greek Proverb


Olive trees can live for thousands of years....
You yourself are enjoying the fruits of someone else's labor from years ago.....
Pay it forward.

It's never to late to plant a tree.... :grin:

 

[tenngun]

:thumbsup:

 

[satx78247]

Your 2 comments about trees reminds me of one of my beloved Grandfather's sayings: While planting flowers is "for pretty" with gratification following soon, planting a tree is an act of faith.

One of my grandparents most endearing traditions was that they planted a pecan tree each your on their wedding anniversary starting in 1896, as long as they both lived.
(My grandmother passed away 2 weeks after I was born in 1946.)
After her passing, my GFR started planting dogwoods on their wedding day, until he too passed away in 1960.

yours, satx

 

[crockett]

One of my regrets was not planting more fruit trees. I always grow vegetables but the fruit trees are a good compliment- prune, etc. in off times. The fruit seems more suitable for a lot of canning and it is an expensive grocery store item.

 

[satx78247]

TRUE.

yours, satx

 

[omarick1948]

Made and canned 20 pints of apple butter as I might of mentioned somewhere else and I'm about the only person in my house who eats it. A lot of the younger generation have never heard of Apple Butter or never have tried it.

That's OK! More for me!

Rick

 

[satx78247]

ImVho, the "younger generation" has missed out on lots of things.

When I was a boy in the late 1950s-1960s, we all hunted/fished, went camping (sometimes for 2-3 weeks at a time in the Summers), rode horses, played ball, fixed up/drove old cars (My first car was a 1929 Ford Tudor, that I bought for 50.oo) & did lots of other things that "today's youth" generally don't do much of.


yours, satx

 

[Ames]

When I bought this farm, it had an orchard. As a few of the old trees gave out in winter storms I took to planting new trees for "the next guy" who owns it.
Now I'm out of room! Apples, cider apples, pie cherries, 5 kinds of pears, hazelnuts, walnuts and peaches. And a 200' row of high bush blueberries.
Next guy will be eating very well. I hope he continues the tradition. :grin:

 

[sidelock]

Younger generations loss.

 

[sidelock]

I remember all that. Todays youth are surely deprived. Cell phones are no substitutes.

 

[satx78247]

NO, cellphones surely aren't.

yours, satx

 

[coloradoclyde]

When I bought this farm, it had an orchard. As a few of the old trees gave out in winter storms I took to planting new trees for "the next guy" who owns it.
Now I'm out of room! Apples, cider apples, pie cherries, 5 kinds of pears, hazelnuts, walnuts and peaches. And a 200' row of high bush blueberries.
Next guy will be eating very well. I hope he continues the tradition. :grin:

:bow: :thumbsup: :hatsoff: :applause:

I applaud anyone who leaves something better than they found it... :applause: :applause:

 

[zimmerstutzen]

Mrs and I really LOVE blueberries. Right now we have a patch of 50 plants and one freezer is dedicated to berries. A half cup of frozen blueberries in the oatmeal every morning. Blueberry pancakes, muffin, etc.

My parents had an apple orchard when I was starting school. I remember how much work it was with the spraying every couple weeks, pruning in winter, killing caterpillars, and then harvesting in the fall and putting up with customers and yellow jackets everywhere on the dropped apples. . For the apples I use, I can drive down to the commercial orchard 5 miles up the road.