You know that feeling you get some mornings upon waking that there's something really exciting happening that day? And your eyes fly open and you jump out of bed? Well for me, every day is like this at the moment.
Because there is an apple on my apple tree. Not the one that keeps getting stripped back by rodents, but the one I bought to keep the first one company.One teeny tiny apple.
And so every morning, I flop out of bed, struggle to open the front door (the lock sticks), traipse down the front stairs (even in the rain), and check that the apple is still on the apple tree.
And so far, every morning I have breathed a sigh of relief.
Funnily enough, there was an apple of the same size on my other tree at exactly this time last year. A few weeks later, it dropped off.
Oh that was a sad, sad day indeed.
Please grow little Tropical Golden Dorset.
I really, really want to taste a freshly picked apple.
8 comments:
fingers crossed your apples doesn't drop
Ali, I hate to say this, but I reckon that apples thrive on neglect. I have lavished tons of TLC on my apple tree and it has produced a very scant harvest for me, but I know a friend who has done the opposite, and ended up with a glut. There's no justice in the world sometimes!
I'm hoping yours will make it to maturity, because it will be very special to you.
A very nice apple it looks to - it deserves to be eaten I think, rather than suffer an ignominious demise slowly composting at the foot of the tree. I have high hopes (but almost no knowledge of apple growing....)
Always one to put a dampener on things...but when you say you bought it as 'company' for the rodent-wracked tree, did you mean so they could cross pollinate? Coz if the other one never got to blossom, I think that little apple is doomed. Hope I am wrong (not that I am often wrong, of course). :-)
Hope your apple is all you dream of! I'd love to grow apples and the guy down the street has a tree which he says only had nice apples this past year. It was a cool summer and they don't like the heat.....Good luck!
You have a veritable orchard - figs and now apples :)
That is one very cute apple. I hope it hangs in there for you :)
Fingers crossed!!
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