Any apple growers

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Firewood Bandit

Discussion Starter · Sep 17, 2021

Back in 2015 I started a renovation of my orchard. Pulled out the standard sized trees with a mini excavator, built 1,000 feet of 8' deer fencing.

In 2016, 2017 & 2018 planted 680 apple trees on a high density setting. 3/4 are 3 varieties of Honeycrisp, but also have Gala, Cortland, Macintosh, Zestar, Wolf River and Granny Smith. Installed drip irrigation, and have moved to an air blast sprayer to keep them healthy along with a Case DX33 loader tractor to run it.

Anyway things are now starting to come into production. Sold 51 bushels this week to a local produce market along with a bunch in the previous weeks. I have a cadre of people who have been buying apples for years.

In the orchard business we have a saying, to make a small fortune, start with a big one.

But I enjoy it and has been a good pastime since 1991.

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MDrew

· #7 · Sep 18, 2021

We have an orchard at work that we have been rehabbing the last few years. Many of the trees are over 100 years old, The last 2 years they have really started producing again.

I have 2 trees at the farm. Not many apples this year, very dry early.

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