Do you grow your own apples?

[FarmerChick]

FIL planted a few new apple trees by the horse barn. We spray only when required.

Our peach trees definitely need spray...those are hard to keep good where I am at..............nothing like fresh apples or peaches.

Leftover peaches we throw into the lake. Catfish eat peaches and tomatoes and all kinds of things. Weird, but they battle over the maters we throw into the lake..fun to watch.

Wasps...ugh, those suckers love peaches also!!

 

[ksalvagno]

We had decided that we wanted to plant some apple trees. Well the spring went by and we just didn't have the time. We had these 5 trees around our house that we have disliked since we moved in. They produced these tiny little "berry" things that didn't grow and weren't edible. Well, this fall, one of those trees produced ONE apple on it. Boy did we feel stupid. We never looked into what kind of trees they were. We were going to chop them down to plant apple trees! So we looked into how to care for them and did get some fertilizer down for them. Hopefully next year we will actually get some apples with properly caring for the trees now. The one apple that we got was good.

 

[dragonlaurel]

If the trees weren't pruned or needed thinned, the fruits would be smaller. Not as much flavor either.

Or maybe they weren't old enough to be bearing really yet.
Good luck

 

[miss_thenorth]

We just moved to our current home last year and planted new apple trees, but we already grew apples in this climate. I bought four "Liberty Free" apple trees this time because at our last house it was the only one resistent to apple scab which is terrible in our area (southwest washington state). I did have to buy one other type as a polinizer. But we loved the fresh picked taste and these Liberty Free are a dessert apple, really a treat!
We also grow asian pears. We are hoping for a nice crop this year as we have eight trees all together that should bear pretty well this coming year.
I'm hoping to have alot more apples now that I've planted the right variety for my area. We did use dormant oil but did not want to do alot of spraying. After all, we are growing our own apples so that it does not have all that junk on it. We did not have wormy apples, we just had apple scab all over the trees that were not the Liberty Free.

Next fall my apple crop should be great!

Where do you live that you can grow Asian pears? I love them!!

 

[Farmfresh]

I have an old (used to be 2 old) apple trees at my big garden spot. I never sprayed or did anything to them and they were always covered with apples. One finally died last year I think the extreme cold and wind breaking the branches finally got it.

Of course I never got any ... stupid squirrels! I ended up trapping them and always get more meat and no fruit. :/