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Our trees are so old two of the apple may have been pushed over by something they lay on their sides but still producing but the apples fall off before ripe... The three massive apples were not cared for since the original house owner died in like 2005 since then no one has been able to reach the tops without a bucket truck... we have a great company called Tyler rentals about 40 miles away they have all the big gear you could hope for even the little stuff in a pinch actually got a post whole digger for fence posts real cheap do it on the weekend you get three days 2 free
 
Thanks, @chickisoup, DH and I try to look at things from a humorous POV. We are kind of like the Oliver and Lisa Douglas type of farmers. One day as we were dealing with trees or chickens or something and DH shook his head and said, that we were pretty pathetic hobby farmers and could you just imagine what we would be facing if we had a thousand acres that we were farming? I said yeah, but that is why crop insurance was invented, LOL

Just a side note about the copper sprays. They do kill earthworms in the ground around the trees when you spray.

The problem with fire blight is that it picks up the fungus from the air when it rains and the rain carries it to the trees. Any blighted limbs that you prune from your trees need to be burned as the fungus lives on in the dead branches. We always notice our worse outbreaks of it after a rain and a cool spell in the spring.
 
penny1960 said:
Our trees are so old two of the apple may have been pushed over by something they lay on their sides but still producing but the apples fall off before ripe... The three massive apples were not cared for since the original house owner died in like 2005 since then no one has been able to reach the tops without a bucket truck... we have a great company called Tyler rentals about 40 miles away they have all the big gear you could hope for even the little stuff in a pinch actually got a post whole digger for fence posts real cheap do it on the weekend you get three days 2 free
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That is so sad.

The large pear tree out by the shed was and still is like that. One huge branch broke of a few years ago and the termites had hollowed it out after step son let a gallon jug of round up leak on it.
After I moved her and I saw it I got some fertilizer and started fertilizing it 3 x a year.
Now it is flourishing again. We did plant another pear tree a few years ago to take it's place since they don't live forever. And this one is over 40 years old already.
I need to cut the tops off my young pear tree and the red delicious apple so they won't get to large to harvest.
Although my dh thinks I should just let them grow as large as they want to.
 
90 degrees out there today. WHY???

At least I didn't feel so bad about sitting in the sewing room all day.

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The house that I consider my childhood home was full of fruit trees. Pears, peaches, apple, cherry. My mother had a huge strawberry and asparagus bed. One of the pear trees was a winter keiffer and the second was a bartlet. They both never had an 'off' season. My parents sold it in 83 and recently I went on line on google earth to look it up to see what had happened to it. It was gone. Evidently the cemetery next door had bought it and bull dozed it all. All the trees were gone, the fruit trees, the Katalbas, everything my parents at times with my help had planted and nurtured for years just gone. It was like 25 years of my life never happened. It made me think of the song 'Dust in the Wind' and the line that says, 'nothing lasts forever except the moon and the stars'.

All too true.
 
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