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. autumn2927 Avatar
    autumn2927

    This is amazing to see 🙂

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

      Thank you, it is amazing what comes from a tiny seed 😀

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  2. cambridgearomatherapy Avatar

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

      Ooh, do let us know how it goes 😀

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  3. Raisa Avatar

    That’s an awesome idea! The world needs more people like you! ❤

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

      Thank you 😀 The world needs more fruit trees 😀

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  4. linnetmoss Avatar

    That is amazing! Good for you, raising trees from tiny babies 🙂

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  5. Vegan on Thames Avatar

    Loving your sneaky planting. Fingers crossed, people will be enjoying the fruits of your labour in years to come.

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

      Wouldn’t that be wonderful? 😀

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