Our Cherry trees gave up about 5 gallons of goodness this year from which we have made lots of jams, jelly, syrup, and pie filling. Our plum trees are about 30 percent this year. We had an aphid issue. I won the war and the trees are fine and look good, but lost the battle for the fruit. The trees aborted many of them. I think as it was so dry, we watered, and our little fruit trees were the only growing leaves so the aphids hit'em HARD. Hope to get out and make up for it with wild plums. There is a good crop of them this year. Our apples are putting out a substantial crop this year. Everything from our young trees (first apples) to our established tree have a good decoration of apples. One of our young trees is so loaded down I may have to knock some off to keep it upright. We've been watering them and they have thanked us with fruit. If even half the apples make it to ripeness, we will have LOTS of applesauce this fall. LOL!! Our pear trees are terrible as far as fruit. We have two, but they bloom so early that we don't have pollinator trees so we get beautiful blooms.........and no pears. (Sigh) The trees look fabulous and are growing like crazy, so I'm working on a pollinator fix. Please Stand By............ All the fruit bushes, the choke berry, sand cherry, current, cranberry, raspberry, honey berry, nankin cherry, and chokecherries are/have produced very well this year for us. We're sittin' pretty good for pancake/french toast syrups, ice cream toppings, and various desert fillings. More harvest to come I hope. Bring on the Rain!!!!!!!!!
