Our peach trees are blossoming, but they don’t look that encouraging. There aren’t many blossoms across our three young trees. One of the trees looks dead basically, with just two random shoots growing from the bottom of the trunk. A few blossoms decorate each shoot, and a couple branches that look to still be alive. If the bees pollenate the peach trees, we might get one or two peaches before summer’s over.
It’s hopefully too early to tell but honestly not many of the plants and trees that we’ve planted look very good, across the entire yard. I’m hoping things shape up soon.
The apple trees have all leafed and look pretty good. In fact this year I think I’ll actually have to figure out (guess) how to prune them. I do this in the fall I believe. It’s too early to tell if we’ll have any apple blossoms.
Here are today’s pics. Fingers crossed we get lucky with spring – weather wise and bounty wise. Or just luck wise in general.
-c
P.S. I forgot, the one redbud tree has a giant ant hill at its base, just like the other redbud tree had in years past. None of the redbud’s look that great. I’m going to go around and spread fertilizer at the base of all my plants and trees this weekend. Don’t know if it’ll help but it’ll make me feel useful, which is all that matters really. Anyway, the ants..I sprayed them with two mixtures: one was vinegar and essential oils, and the other was warm water with Dawn dish soap. In theory one or the other or both will either kill or deter the ants from living at the base of my redbud tree. I’ll keep spraying, dousing for several days and see if it helps any.
ha! will think of you when i spy that display in the paint aisle – good job!
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I like your day job although I don’t know how you have time for it with all those fruit trees!
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Right?! I know.
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I hope your trees and plants do well! We have a couple of apple trees we planted the year before last and only one is filling out. The other one had some damage by what we can only guess is an animal so we don’t think it’s coming back but, we’ll wait a bit before we make any decisions to take it out. Also, I’m in our local mass DIY store on a weekly basis and I know those displays well π
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We’re going to delve into cherry trees this year. So we’ll take photos with the boys for the memories and then watch the trees die out over the next few years lol. π
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Oh no!! LOL!! Ahh, the memories π
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