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| Nature's Bounty © by Ruth Zachary |
Hi Blog Followers!
I am sorry I have not kept up with
my usual schedule for blogging… about four times per month.
I have been “blessed” with a bumper
crop of apples on my two back yard trees. Usually having an organic approach to
harvesting my back “forty,” meant the apple worms got about 90% of the apples.
This year, cool Weather not only went just right for only minor freezing, and
also eliminated a lot of the worm problems. Rain also filled the branches with
glorious fruits, that clung to their mothers tenaciously, until several
branches broke off from the trees, and fell to the ground, branches, apples and
all. Other branches weighted by fruit hung down to the ground, so that I could
mow the grass with a careful strategy.
I pruned the low hanging branches
and salvaged the apples. First I rescued the apples from the fallen and
drooping branches, sorting the good from the bad, until I had filled 23
recycled grocery bags with mostly pre-ripened apples.
Not wanting to waste good food, I
looked for places to give all these delicious sweet apples, I called the local
Food Bank, but they were deluged with apples from other sources who had
experienced the same sort of blessings. Finally the Salvation Army, which
maintains a kitchen picked up my first shipment of apples.
"First shipment", because
the job is not yet complete. There are more apples, now nearly ripe, that I
hope to distribute to Orgs that help the homeless and needy. Plus, there will
be some for home use,and to give to friends and neighbors.
So I will post my blogs as I am
able, and you will know why I have missed a few dates before and after this
post.
UPDATE OCT. 31
Most of the apples have been delivered and/ or harvested. Two varieties remain on one tree, and
people continue to pick more, and I hope will do so until they freeze and are no longer any good.
The Image and Writing are © by Ruth Zachary.
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