Running a Muddy Trail
Go Figure!
{ 02:52, 8 September 2008 }
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2008 is the year of fruit at the Wolpertinger farm (well farm/garden/yard/bakery thingy that we have got going here). Hopefully it is only the first of many "years of fruit", wherever we are living. But this year we have installed a rockin and rollin strawberry bed -- a bed that was 4 neat rows of 44 total plants this April but is now an unruly bed chock full of an uncountable number of strawberry plants, a handful of volunteer tomatoes and a spattering of weed amaranth.We planted an apricot tree from an Amish nursery in PA and a peach tree from a pit that sprouted in our compost pile. Both trees are taller than any of the inhabitants of this house at this point.
We trellissed and trimmed our wild black raspberries. This was the first time I've ever attempted to exert any control over this, my absolute favorite of wild fruits, and resulted in plants that bore an abundance of berries that one could actually access to pick.When the younger brother came a-visiting, we went camping and wild blueberry picking (3+ gallons!) to supplement the meager first harvest we enjoyed off our domestic blueberry plants in the yard. And we enjoyed more and larger Summer Rambo apples from the tree that came with our house than we have any year since we arrived. Our cherry tree and grapevine also performed admirably.
Finally, we harvested and enjoyed (indeed, we are STILL enjoying) our first figs! Last summer and fall we were given a couple fig trees which we replanted into large planters and kept in the basement over the winter. One of them was slow to get started this spring, but the other wasted no time opening up leaves and growing it's branches. With a bit of help from our town's resident Italian fig farmer we managed to get the quick plant to set fruit and it is now ripening much to our delight. The slower plant, by the way, though it isn't bearing fruit this year is just so pretty and happy looking that it's quite enjoyable too -- just doesn't taste quite as good yet.
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