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Comments (39)None of my M27 have been real productive. I've done much better with full dwarf (B9/G11/G16), than mini-dwarf. I think M27 could be good, but only if you pay very close attention to it. Very few of my apples set very well this past year (on any rootstock). Only the Priscilla had a decent crop, about the same size as the year before, even though I had grafted over the upper portion. The apples from it were pretty good too- I'm not planning on grafting over the rest of it anymore. HGG would have had a good crop (see below). Sundance also had a moderate crop (1st time in year #3), with most others (including Goldrush and WIlliam's Pride, smaller in year #4 than in #3) having small crops. Some of it could be letting them bear too early. I thinned quite a bit, but more would probably have helped. While they are all well staked and mulched, I haven't watered them very much. I should probably give them a couple more good soakings during the dry parts of July. I got 5 in 2011 from Raintree: Ashmead's Kernel- never leafed out, but a single bud from the graft union did grow. After a year, I transplanted it back into a pot, which I later replanted after it yielded 2 apples and I verified that it wasn't just rootstock. Enterprise- looked like it had a good root system when I planted it, but it never leafed out. Akane- 3 apples in 2013 (3rd year) and probably a couple more last year. Hudson's Golden Gem- It has set big crops the last two years. In 2013, all but one of the dozen+ apples cracked and rotted. In 2014, I lost most of the ~20 apples to animals. The 3 I picked were very good. Red Boskoop- This is the biggest M27. Maybe 7.5' tall, it seems like a good size to me. It has been covered with blooms the last 2 years, but hasn't ripened a single apple. There were a few which made it into summer, but none made it all the way....See MoreRECIPE: Can Sponge Cake Dessert Shells be Frozen?
Comments (1)Yes. And I'd put them in a freezer bag or well wrap them....See MoreRegional Desserts
Comments (81)Annie, I always thought the batter poured over the fruit was a more recent method. My mother made a bottom crust AND a top crust. The crust was always my favorite part of any pie, cobbler or not. No wonder bread is my favorite food. And..your thought about raising chickens being a factor in the egg custard is probably right. My Dad died when I was only 9. We had to move to a smaller place, and although we continued to live in the country we didn't have cows, but did raise chickens and at least one hog a year. I'm lovin' this thread...brings back a lot of good memories. That makes me think of something else. Did any of you all ever have fried raisin pies? I can remember coming home from school and smellin' those pies before I ever got in the door! jude...See MoreDo you decorate snowmen cookies/desserts in the south??
Comments (17)I grew up where Amanda did, and I didn't see snow until I was 11. It was warmer than usual when I was a child, and we also were having a very long drought. We did sing "Frosty the Snowman" and decorate snowman cookies, however. When we finally did have snow, it was only one or two inches, and my sister and I scraped the entire front yard clean to make a two foot high snowman, which was anything but white because of all the leaves that were in it. My grandmother had a landscape painting in her den that was a scene of a river flowing through a snowy landscape. It was painted around 1927, I think, and was rather dark, with a dark sky and dark rocks at the river. The river was also dark, but there were lots of patches of white snow. As a child, I though the patches of snow were ghosts and had no idea that it was a landscape painting, and it always scared me to see it. I think I was 12 before I figured out what it really was. She had another dark painting from the same period of a vase with tulips in it, and I thought it was a bear wearing a hat - the vase was the bear's head and the tulip blossoms were the hat. That one scared me also. Lars...See Morelisaw2015 (ME)
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