Of course I’m keeping a close eye on the apple trees. The thing that surprised me, as soon as there were apples starting to form behind the blossoms, was that the different varieties of apples already looked different. It’s like looking at a baby picture of someone you know as an adult and being able to see the beginnings of their individual features. It’s really the Delicious that looks like itself, with those little bumps around the blossom end. By now the larger apples are bigger than ping-pong balls, so the distinctive shape isn’t so surprising; but still.
MacIntosh…
Delicious…
Baldwin, I think. I know I didn’t get down to the Cortland.
And here’s a grapevine that’s doing great. We got an 8-pak of grape plants at Costco. We’re a little surprised that 8 for 8 are still alive.
Some time after I took this picture I built a sort of trellis, or at least a sort of fence, of big sticks, for the grapes. Only this one plant is so big that it really needs support, and even it doesn’t really need support because it’s not going to bear fruit this year.