Orchard Harvest

We haven't made a lot of mention of our orchard on this blog. The main reason for that is that we haven't spent much time thinking about - or working with - our orchard.

Consisting of 17 trees, the orchard was planted by the Clausens (obviously) and contains a combination of young trees, mature trees and "retired" trees (that no longer produce much fruit). We have an assortment of Italian plum, Green plum, Granny Smith apple, Asian pear, Cherry (retired), Filbert (forced retirement - no mate to pollinate), Jonagold apple, etc.

Now is the time when most of the trees are ready to harvest. Some are actually a little bit beyond that stage, but we'll know better for next year. We've concentrated on the plums, Jonagold and Granny apples, making some tarts, jams and dried fruit - more on that in a later post (when I get some photos.)

Meanwhile, enjoy these photos from our orchard harvesting. We probably spent as much time taking photos as we did actually picking fruit. ;)


Jonagold apples


Mt Adams over the "arboretum"


Autumn leaves


Trees full of plums!


Italian plums (closeup)


Corinne with wormy apple


Jonagolds

- Mike (& Corinne)