Accelerating apple tree growth…

I planted a mini apple orchard in March 2008 consisting of eight trees of varying varieties. They grew a bit and we even got some miniature fruit from them.

This year I have tried to gain more growth at the expense of harvesting less fruit. I’ve never had much experience at growing fruit trees before this particular venture and would be lying if I said I had done much research into the matter either.

Anyway, yesterday, I removed all but six or seven fruits on each tree to enable it to focus its energies in new growth throughout the summer. Hopefully I shall notice bigger trees by October. Here is a picture of them currenty:

I will post an update on the topic later in the year with more pictures.

In the meantime, the squash seeds went in on Tuesday.