Today, I harvested my Liberty apples. This is the first harvest of any quantity I have had from my young orchard project.
I have been planting trees since we moved here in 2021. We arrived in Vermont on July 4, 2021. We found our current home quickly and planted the first apple tree on November 7, 2021.
We now have planted 11 apple trees, 4 pear trees, 5 plum trees, 2 peach and 2 cherry trees. Plus 3 crabapple trees and 3 maple trees and some ornamental trees/shrubs. Plus added a garden. I am also working on berries with raspberries, blueberries and blackberries so far.
We have enjoyed a few apples to sample before harvesting. We are probably a little late as some apples are a bit past prime.
Food photography is tough 馃槄 if I want perfect photos I probably need to use some additional lighting. Plus I noticed my knife work was not perfect 馃檮
We picked 23 apples. Thats probably not even a peck. There are four peck in a bushel. We paid $10 for half a peck of mix and match you-pick-em apples last weekend. That is a probably the high end of you-pick-em prices around here. I have a ways to go to recover my costs lol
This was a nice treat which is all I'm expecting. This is not a business 馃槅 We love where we live but if I was trying to grow apples for a living, we would need to be out in the Champlain Valley and out of the foothills (and forests).