GARDENER IN THE SKY
 
Ellen Wallace
Ellen Wallace
 

I haven’t had much time for gardening this summer, a combination of travels and an injured knee that bans work on slopes – tough one that, in the mountains! So we have lettuce and tomatoes, a handful of potatoes and onions, but none of the usual gratifying crops.

Except for Ye Olde Apple Tree here, who is having a bumper crop of a an old Valais variety. I haven’t seen so many apples since I met this tree 11 years ago, before we built a house next to it. My neighbour, then in her late 80s, remembered this tree from her childhood and we’ve calculated it is now about 110!

We have since planted four other apples trees, and if we get a total of 5 apples from them this year I will be surprised.

The problem with these old fellows is that they are unfashionable apples by today’s standards. You bite into one and it turns brown very quickly. They have a bitterness after the initial sweetness. They keep well, but only if you don’t mind wrinkles on your apples.

But I can’t fault the tree when it comes to quantity!

Posted by :: Ellen Wallace on 13 September 2012 at 14:03 | permalink
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GenevaLunch, 13 September 2012.

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