Remember a couple of years ago we started growing apple trees from seed?
FLASH BACK: this is how they looked in February 2014
Well, we’ve kept on with it, sprouting seed after seed, growing seedling after seedling, and we have quite a few in different sized pots around the garden. Some of them didn’t make it, sadly, but that’s the way it goes, and we just keep on going. (I say ‘we’ but really it’s Miranda who does all the work. I help with watering 😉 )
If you look over here you will see what our oldest ones looked like a year ago – nice strong, woody stems, but still tiny.
But now the tallest one is about four feet tall! I’ve photographed it next to a garden chair to give you some idea of scale:
How fantastic is that?!!!
It seems like no time since we sprouted those first seeds.
We have planted a few in the wild and intend to keep doing that, inconspicuously near public footpaths, in the hope of providing free food for the future, but most of them are still in pots for now.
We love our little trees 😀
If you want to do this yourself, go to the original post to see how 🙂
These trees make a lot of leaves. It’s good for oxygen and the atmosphere. Well done.
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Thank you 😀
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This is amazing to see 🙂
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Thank you, it is amazing what comes from a tiny seed 😀
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Great to be doing it from seed and creating some new varieties. Mostly I have grafted but will plant some more seeds, some just into ground to see what happens – some will get eaten by wildlife but with luck some will make it as well. Of the new varieties created some may be the apples of the future and others the rootstocks of the future!
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Ooh, do let us know how it goes 😀
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That’s an awesome idea! The world needs more people like you! ❤
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Thank you 😀 The world needs more fruit trees 😀
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That is amazing! Good for you, raising trees from tiny babies 🙂
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😀
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Loving your sneaky planting. Fingers crossed, people will be enjoying the fruits of your labour in years to come.
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Wouldn’t that be wonderful? 😀
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Oddly enough, Johnny Appleseed was the name that also came to mind and I too learned that at school. How times have changed.
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In what way? Don’t they read it in schools anymore?
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No not in Australia that I am aware of and certainly not in South Australia. A lot of the attitude here is “if it’s not Australian it’s not worth knowing about” and very old American folk lore is not on the curriculum.
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Interesting
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Wow!! Awesome!!
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😀
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Indeed 😊
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I’ve got one as well! Covered with flowers now 🙂 Yours are lovely!
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Brilliant! Did you grow it from seed? How old is it?
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I got it from the garden centre three (or four?) years ago, I’m still surprised it have survived…
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has survived, even;) I’m not good at gardening, really…
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a comment in two parts – that’s a novel way to do it 🙂
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well, I should have read the first one before posting 😉
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ha ha ha 😀
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Guerilla gardening – love it!
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😀
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I remember the story of Johny Appleseed from my school days. Congratulations on following in his footsteps.
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Johnny Appleseed? Now that name rings a bell but I don’t know the story. I’ll look out for it 😀
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