The boys harvested our very first harvest of apples from our apple tree! Woohooo!!!
Yeah… we have a LOT of hornets and wasps around the homestead, how could you tell? :-p
I am now convinced of the beauties of pesticide, people. Yow. Those bugs had a feast.
We will chop up what we can of the apples and freeze them, for making pies and other yummy things during the winter. It’s our first year where we got anything meaningful from our tree, so I am excited! It was many hard years of beating back the rabbits and the deer from my poor tree, all these years. Ah, success!! I BEAT THEM!!
September 8, 2009 at 8:49 pm
YAY!! Good going. I have an apple-pickin’ appointment soon and then my neighbor is going to show me how to can up apple pie filling, so you just pop the can open, dump into the crust and bake!! Sounds like a good deal to me! Congrats on the crop.
September 9, 2009 at 7:49 pm
Just don’t leave them where the bears can get them. A couple of years ago we picked a huge box of apples off the tree at the office and I left them in the back of my pickup, thinking that was safer and cooler than in the house. The next morning the back of the truck was open and the apples were almost gone – a bear had pushed open the topper (busted it up) and crawled in to eat the apples. It made me wonder if he would have tried to get into the house had I left them there instead. The door to the breakfast room where I would have left them has glass on the upper part of the door – I’m thinking we would have had a very rude awakening in the middle of the night!
Hope you get some yummy applesauce out of the apples. Apple pie sounds delicious, too!
September 10, 2009 at 10:41 pm
I can’t wait to harvest ours! I’m dreaming of apple butter – mmmm!
Seriously, heaven is apple butter and homemade bread just out of the oven! Yummy!
September 11, 2009 at 12:32 pm
WOW,it is cool.
I can not wait to plant a fruit tree at my backyard (at least). I have to think, again how many trees I will plant, he,he…