A lot has been going on in my little world lately. My beloved trees were all taken out on the 13th. What I have left is all there is left
I got the clonex Sat and used that on the cuttings I had in the refrigerator. It's up to mother nature now.
Today I checked on the first cuttings and while I am still holding my breath they don't look too bad
I am cautiously optimistic that it just might work and beginning to wonder exactly where I will put them all if they do work.
Since my blueberries are almost finished producing we decided to go to the blueberry park today. We got there around 8 and picked for an hour and a half before we got tired and the temperature got hot. In spite of the fact that most of the bushes aren't even beginning to ripen
Some actually look like this
Which was enough to get us a little over a gallon of them
When we got home Mrs Cranky was eating them by the handful and talking about wanting to go back tomorrow.
When we got home I took a break for a while then went back out to pick apples. I was hoping to hit the back yard tree but when I got there it just wasn't ready so I spent an hour picking the transparent. I got another 110 LBS or so, maybe a little more which brings that tree up to 360#s. I'm sure I could get at least another 100#s off it but time is not my friend right now. I was really hoping to get 200-300#s off the back yard tree before I processed but the transparents need processed soon or I will lose too many. My plan is to get the chopper set up tomorrow morning and put MRS Cranky to work chopping, then press while I work on the kitchen. These apples should be good for around 22 gallons, not enough to do a proper brandy run but enough for cider for the year if it comes to it.
When I got back home from that I had to go water and check on the other stuff.
The tomatoes are starting to show color, the plum should start producing any day now, the seckel pear is beginning to show some size
I even found a second one, so it looks like I will get 2 this year
The KDs are beginning to get some size now and the Hazens are approaching full size
I also got my first blackberries today
All in all things are progressing nicely.