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| Oddly sweet crab apple tree on left, sweet pink & yellow apples on the right |
Flown Piggies Farm has zero pigs, with or without wings, but what it does have is apples - and lots of them.
There are uh.... like maybe ten apple trees and the size and taste of each apple type varies wildly. There are ensy red 'crab' apples that actually taste pretty good. There are humongous yellow and pink apples in the rear of the cottage. This year, that particular tree only put out about half the number of apples it normally does. In a good year it produces hundreds of apples, but this year it yielded just short of 100 apples. No surprise, each tree's yield depends when the fruit trees bloom in the spring, and how many honey bees, bumblebees and other insects are available then to fertilize the tree's flowers. Spring weather and number of flower fertilizing insects can vary wildly from year to year.
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| The entire crop of one of the apple trees |
There is one tree that the past 2 years didn't produce a single fruit. Didn't think it was an apple tree. Now this year, it managed to produce - a single fruit. Not sure what the tree's problem is, but its lone apple was pretty, sweet and crunchy. Yum! Hope I get a second apple next year...
Now what happened with this year's apple crop of Flown Piggies Farmj apples? Some apples were eaten as is. Not a single apple made it into the many pies, tarts, Danishes, puff pastry, or apple sauce that I dreamed of making last year when the entire crop of apples fell from the trees virtually overnight. That was due to a storm and not a single apple was gathered by a human, although the local deer made out like the bandits they are.
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| Yeah buddy... Got my eye on you, sneaking over to the apple orchard trying to look all innocent like you don't have apple scented breath |
Not to brag, but this year many apples this year made it into the dehydrator so SCORE for that!
