things are happening.

[js]

checked on some of my berry bushes, fruit, and chestnut trees, and things are a happening.

and these ugly bastards have already showed their faces.

even one of my apples I thought I was gonna lose is coming back. had a bad case of the rust last year and thought it was a gonner.

[nytrapper23]

That reminds me I need to spray and prune my daughters trees.

[Deleted]

Nice. Won't be too much longer

[John Gusmano]

So, there is hope!!!!

Nice pics. Spring is fighting her way past Old Man Winter, won't be too long now.

[farmertrappe]

Looking good, my stuff is starting to bud too. Hope to rack out the strawberries this weekend.

[js]

amazing what a week will bring. pear trees are blooming.

[bk]

Js, what kind of pears do you raise?

[js]

Apr 14, 2015 22:22:32 GMT -5 bk said:

Js, what kind of pears do you raise?

I got a couple of bartlet pear trees, and a couple different varieties of apples. Put these ones in the ground last year. I lost all my fruit trees the year before to a number of things.

[bk]

Apr 15, 2015 6:01:09 GMT -5 js said:

Apr 14, 2015 22:22:32 GMT -5 bk said:

Js, what kind of pears do you raise?

I got a couple of bartlet pear trees, and a couple different varieties of apples. Put these ones in the ground last year. I lost all my fruit trees the year before to a number of things.

Thanks, JS.  I know you are in a warmer zone than I am, but still trying to get a handle on some fruit trees that will survive.  My apples are doing well.   Have a mixed stand of north hardy apples, a number of which were developed by the University of Minnesota and they seem to overwinter well.  I've managed to get a snowcrisp and a bartlet pear to grow here in Wisconsin for three years now, set one pear last year on the bartlet, but the damn crows ate it before it matured.

Thanks again for the info and good luck with your fruit patch.  Nothing like home grown. 

[js]

Apr 15, 2015 8:29:45 GMT -5 bk said:

Apr 15, 2015 6:01:09 GMT -5 js said:

I got a couple of bartlet pear trees, and a couple different varieties of apples. Put these ones in the ground last year. I lost all my fruit trees the year before to a number of things.

Thanks, JS.  I know you are in a warmer zone than I am, but still trying to get a handle on some fruit trees that will survive.  My apples are doing well.   Have a mixed stand of north hardy apples, a number of which were developed by the University of Minnesota and they seem to overwinter well.  I've managed to get a snowcrisp and a bartlet pear to grow here in Wisconsin for three years now, set one pear last year on the bartlet, but the damn crows ate it before it matured.

Thanks again for the info and good luck with your fruit patch.  Nothing like home grown. 

The little bit I've read on the bartlets, they're suppose to be generally hardy and grow from Canada on down.

I'm hoping to get a couple out of them this year, they started making some small ones last year but the deer got to em before I could.