{"id":1012,"date":"2008-11-22T11:49:20","date_gmt":"2008-11-22T18:49:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=1012"},"modified":"2008-11-22T11:49:20","modified_gmt":"2008-11-22T18:49:20","slug":"apple-trees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=1012","title":{"rendered":"Apple trees"},"content":{"rendered":"

sappletree-11-22.JPG<\/a>
\nAn old-fashioned limbertwig<\/em><\/p>\n

You’d think that for all the work I did planting apple trees this week that there’d be something more photogenic. But at this point there’s not really much to see. Each tree is four feet tall (with almost a foot of it underground). And each tree is heavily pruned.<\/p>\n

I planted nine apple trees and one pear tree. The trees came from Century Farm Orchards<\/a>, which specializes in old Southern apple trees. I planted nine different varieties of apples. I tried to select varieties that would extend the season from early to late (July to November or so), and apples that store well. For the record, here are the varieties:<\/p>\n

Arkansas black (2)<\/p>\n

Kinnaird’s choice (1)<\/p>\n

Old fashioned limbertwig (1)<\/p>\n

Mary Reid (1)<\/p>\n

Smokehouse (1)<\/p>\n

Summer banana (1)<\/p>\n

William’s favorite (1)<\/p>\n

Yellow June (1)<\/p>\n

Plumblee pear (1)<\/p>\n

Though the trees are all old-fashioned varieties, they were grown on MM.111 rootstock, a hardy rootstock.<\/p>\n

With luck, I’ll have apples in three to six years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An old-fashioned limbertwig You’d think that for all the work I did planting apple trees this week that there’d be something more photogenic. But at this point there’s not really much to see. Each tree is four feet tall (with almost a foot of it underground). And each tree is heavily pruned. I planted nine … Continue reading “Apple trees”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-sustainable-living"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}