Saturday, June 14, 2008

Fruit trees






Here's the current status:
  • 3 persimmons- Good producers of mushy orange fruit. No one in our family cares for them too much, but I'm going to try baking with them this year.
  • 6 Asian pears- all with a virus or something mysterious that makes some leaves turn black. These are old trees. Some produce and some don't. The one pictured is one I heavily pruned.
  • 2 young peach trees- Need to be pruned, fertilized. Looking kinda scraggly.
  • 1 Mulberry tree- Young and leggy, needs to be pruned. has the making of a winner!
  • 1 Grape Arbor of scuponong grapes. Weeding is in order and grape flea beetles ravaged this vine recently!!
Lots of maintenance to be done in the orchard! In addition, I'd like this area to have irrigation, but since we are technically only renting this land right now, expensive improvements will have to wait.

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