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The grass really IS greener

4/19/2014

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The hits keep on coming over here on our farm: eight more varieties in bloom since last report and wee fruitlets on the early bloomers. I can't tell you much about all of the apple varieties; with Scott having 100 in trial, I can't keep up! An amazing resource is Liz Copas's Cider Apples: The New Pomona. It is Scott's bible. 

Here's the latest blossom and fruiting report:
April 12: Good fruit set (fingers crossed): Winter Banana, Transcendent Crab
April 12: New blossoms: King David, Le Bret, Sweet Alford, Foxwhelp, Hudson's Golden Gem, Tremlett's Bitter, Waltana
April 15: New blossoms: Rome Beauty

Easter is tomorrow, and whether you're religious or not, you can't deny that this is the season for celebrating new life and rebirth. It's lush, verdant, fertile, and abundant out here. We've had to mow, weedwhack, and set the sheep out on new pastures because the grasses have grown up to our thighs, something I thought unimaginable back in January. Birds, ladybugs, lacewings, soldier beetles, and butterflies aplenty. All our veggie starts, herbs, and perennials are looking good, and I've been scything cover crop to prepare our kitchen garden. More rain is in the long-range forecast, and there are even murmurings of a strong El Niño developing in the Pacific, which generally means a rainy fall and winter for us. Fingers crossed. 

Happy Easter, peeps!

Hudson's Golden Gem
King David
Le Bret
Rome Beauty
Sweet Alford
Tremlett's Bitter
Waltana
Winter Banana fruitlets
Transcendent Crab fruitlets
Foxwhelp
Moving on to greener pastures
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jennifer
4/19/2014 11:36:37 am

How exciting!!! What a treat it will be for Cider Country to have such a wealth of knowledge in the future. You two are doing very good deeds - very good, delicious deeds - that I can't wait to sip the benefits of in a few years. Thank you for all that you do in the name of cider. Here's to hoping big B is ready to be the cider king of Sonoma one day down the road!!! Biodiversity, sustainability, legitimate commerce and not to mention the most satisfying cider I've ever tasted.

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John Mott link
4/24/2014 08:52:05 am

We're jealous of those blossoms. Still waiting for green tip up here in the north!

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