Each morning after a morning walk and breakfast, I do a walk around of the yard, garden, and fruit trees. Hopefully check the rain gauge, but no need today 馃檨
I started on the west side of the yard today where we have 4 pear trees. These are golden spice pears. They are smallish pears but very cold hardy.
I go a little overboard on planting only cold hardy trees but better safe than sorry. I paired my golden spice pears with ure pears another cold hardy variety. Both are Pyrus ussuriensis and don't pollinate well with standard pears because of early blooms.
My Liberty apple tree is producing a nice crop this year. I have a large fence enclosure around it right now. Because I want to harvest these and not feed the deers again this year 馃檮
This will be my first apple harvest that amounts to anything. I have had a couple of apples from a couple of trees but not a full crop from any tree yet.
My Winecrisp tree has a few apples again. This photo also shows one of my apple growing problems. The yellow spots with brown centers on the leaves are cedar apple rust. Some of my trees are more resistant to the rust (like the Liberty) and it normally doesn't kill the trees. I don't want to treat it chemically so it is something I will probably just live with. I might put some effort reducing cedar trees near my apple trees but thats not really practical with the amount of cedar trees in the local forest.
