Most of Andy’s fruit trees are thriving with the fertilizing, spraying, and watering he does.
Cherry tree we talked about yesterday.
But there are also a few volunteer apples trees struggling on their own. These first two pictures show trees that have spouted from seeds.
And this one is growing from the roots of a transparent apple tree that got burned in the fire. We don’t know what the root stock was — the transparent might have been grafted to it. If it survives we’ll just have to see.
Andy’s not planning to water or fertilize them, but we are curious to see how they will do on their own. Wish them luck!
They may yet surprise you as they should be by all logic sturdier than the pampered ones. Like the alley cat vs the pet cat! It is a nice description to call them volunteer trees!
We’ll have to see. The ones that sprouted from seeds — and without the hardware cloth to keep the gophers from eating the roots and the higher fencing to keep mice from girdling the bark during snowy winters — may have problems. We lost a lot of trees that way in the early years. The tree springing from the old roots might do all right because it’s still protected. Again, we’ll just have to see.
good grief Charlie brown!
where have i been the last few days!!! LOL.
not here obviously.
i had some catching up to do monk.
i had a ‘volunteered’ elm tree at the wee blink bonnie.
the marine said it blew into a pot of dirt he had on his deck. he watered it and like you with these… so other than water… you do have to water here or things die…
but otherwise he let it just sink or swim.
it swum! it became large enough to transplant into my back yard.
when i moved … it was absolutely a beautiful big tree!!!
so… you just never know. 😀
That’s a great story. Thanks! We’ll have to see if ours can survive without Andy watering them — assuming the animals don’t kill the ones that sprouted from seeds.
volunteer trees. I like that.
I do hope they survive.
I lost three trees this year.
I think mostly from the harsh winter we had
but one was nibbled to death by a deer.
good luck little trees!