|
|
Post by paulshiroma on Oct 30, 2015 19:39:06 GMT -5
I've been watching Snowmom's thread on apple trees and have always been interested in "heirloom" fruits and veggies. This week she graciously sent me a box of groundfall for seeds as I'm one of those folks who will plant seeds from whatever fruits I cut in the kitchen to see if I can grow them. The package also contained a selection of local rocks from Michigan. Wooo Hooo!!! Big Shout Out to snowmom!!! THANK YOU!   Ground fall for seeds!  Paul Shiroma |
|
|
|
Post by snowmom on Oct 31, 2015 5:07:11 GMT -5
my pleasure!
|
|
|
|
Post by kk on Oct 31, 2015 5:20:49 GMT -5
Hmmm, those apples look familiar. They are not very strong-fleshed? More on the softer side, if I remember right.
If they are, we enjoyed those in a race against bees and wasps every year, as kids.
|
|
Fossilman
Cave Dweller 
Member since January 2009
Posts: 20,723 
|
Post by Fossilman on Oct 31, 2015 23:36:00 GMT -5
D,is a good egg!!!!!! Thumbs up D!!!!!!!!!!!
|
|
|
|
Post by snowmom on Nov 1, 2015 8:30:40 GMT -5
kk, they are almost pear like but more fibrous, very juicy... yes, hornets were everywhere on them... almost exuding juice through their skins... where did you find such fruit as a kid?
|
|
|
|
Post by kk on Nov 1, 2015 10:20:32 GMT -5
kk, they are almost pear like but more fibrous, very juicy... yes, hornets were everywhere on them... almost exuding juice through their skins... where did you find such fruit as a kid? At home in Austria. That's what I thought, I got a word for the texture in German, but a direct translation does not make sense. Grandpa, loved to keep them save till he had enough to make cider. Was his special thing, because nearly all the other apples ripened much later, and this type can not be kept for long, he could not wait to make the trip to the press with the few he got from his 4 or 5 trees. On the big trip later, dad and grandpa would have a yield of 6-7 barrels of cider to last for the year. But GP still had a halfsized one from those apples, reserved for himself (no clue how he managed to press them). |
|
|
|
Post by snowmom on Nov 2, 2015 5:02:24 GMT -5
kk thats a wonderful memory to have, Grandpa's secret a wonderful thing to contemplate.  |
|
