Home Grown Apple Trees – Look at them now!

apple trees from seed

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 😉 )

apple trees from seed

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:

apple trees grown from seed

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.

apple trees from seed

We love our little trees 😀

If you want to do this yourself, go to the original post to see how 🙂

30 responses to “Home Grown Apple Trees – Look at them now!”

  1. edgar62 Avatar

    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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    1. Violet of Violet's Veg*n e-comics Avatar

      In what way? Don’t they read it in schools anymore?

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    2. edgar62 Avatar

      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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  2. fredreeca Avatar

    Wow!! Awesome!!

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    1. Nomzi Kumalo Avatar

      Indeed 😊

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  3. lilyandardbeg Avatar
    lilyandardbeg

    I’ve got one as well! Covered with flowers now 🙂 Yours are lovely!

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    1. Violet of Violet's Veg*n e-comics Avatar

      Brilliant! Did you grow it from seed? How old is it?

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      1. lilyandardbeg Avatar
        lilyandardbeg

        I got it from the garden centre three (or four?) years ago, I’m still surprised it have survived…

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        1. lilyandardbeg Avatar
          lilyandardbeg

          has survived, even;) I’m not good at gardening, really…

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        2. Violet of Violet's Veg*n e-comics Avatar

          a comment in two parts – that’s a novel way to do it 🙂

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        3. lilyandardbeg Avatar
          lilyandardbeg

          well, I should have read the first one before posting 😉

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  4. Animalista Untamed Avatar

    Guerilla gardening – love it!

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  5. watchingthedaisies Avatar

    I remember the story of Johny Appleseed from my school days. Congratulations on following in his footsteps.

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    1. Violet of Violet's Veg*n e-comics Avatar

      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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