One day we caught the bus into the city and on the way, in the middle of nowhere, the bus stopped to pick someone up. Â Right next to the bus stop, on the wide grass verge, was a large apple tree. Â It was full of apples. Â An apple tree, in the middle of nowhere, by a bus stop, apparently not belonging to anyone. Â Free apples for anyone who chose to help themselves.
“How brilliant!” we thought. Â We should all plant fruit and nut trees at every opportunity, and provide free food for foragers. Â Food that will keep being produced year after year without any help from us.
So, we looked up how to grow an apple tree from seed (turns out there’s seed drying, seed damp-wrapping and seed cooling to be done, plus some weeks of waiting) and began 🙂
It’s very exciting to watch them grow 😀
According to wikihow these trees, grown from seed, will be big (so we’ll have to carefully consider where we plant them) and it will probably be 10 years before they produce any fruit – but so what? We’re planting for the future, and that’s very cool!  It doesn’t cost us anything and it’s a very positive thing to do.  Why don’t you have a go?  Here’s how
Fancy growing other types of tree from seeds you’ve collected? Â No problem – just look at this brilliant web page
UPDATES:
Look here to see how our little apple trees are doing 14 months later 🙂
And look at them now – after 2 and a quarter years 😀
And the year after that! (2017)
And in 2019!
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