crabapples

 I went to my favorite crabapple tree today; the only Dolgo that I've
found in the whole city.  It's along the driveway to the water
department treatment plant.  Some idiot pruned it.

Looks like they sent a teenager out there with a chainsaw and told him
to cut off all the branches he could reach and just leave the trunk.
Everything below about 6' was cut.  I'm pretty tall, so I was able to
pick maybe a gallon before it started raining.  If they hadn't pruned
it, I could have filled a 5 gallon bucket in the same time.

Not sure whether to go back out tomorrow with a stepladder or not.
There's not a whole lot of fruit on it.

There are crabapple trees planted everywhere around here, but this is
the only one that actually bears fruit worth picking.  The rest are
mostly pea-sized, hard, and flavorless.

-Bob

 OMG, that is such a shame...glad you were able to get some though...

 Mimi wrote:

Thanks.  I juiced these tonight and I think I got just enough to make
one batch of jelly if I use Certo.  (I could just add sugar and boil it
down, but that wouldn't yield very much.)  I got about 6 or 7 cups of
juice but it's watered-down a bit from the steam juicer.  I'll boil that
down to 5 cups to get it back to full strength then make the jelly.

One batch of jelly is easily a year supply, it just doesn't give me any
extra to give away :-(  I guess I can make plum or apricot jam for that...

-Bob

 zxcvbob wrote:

You can plant your own crabapple tree(s).  You'd also get a lot more
and much superior fruit from a tree planted in good soil rather than
surrounded by pavement, that you water, fertilize, prune, and tend to
yourself.

 On Sep 4, 7:33 am, Brooklyn1 <Gravesend1> wrote:

That is too bad, I'm sorry!  My parents have issues with their
neighbors taking all their apples without asking and it's frustrating
as well.