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["Lynda" <lurine AT softcom.net>]

You're having fruit picking parties when?

Lynda, off to get some more canning jars on Friday.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "EarthNSky" <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net>


> This is our 10th year at EarthNSky.  We planted a number of fruit trees
> in the first year or two, and I continue to add to the list of fruits
> every year.  In all that time, though, I have never seen a year like
> this.  Usually we have some sort of calamity happen and the fruit
> pickings are slim to none.  This year is shaping up to be so bountiful
> that it might be problematic.  Every fruiting tree and vine on the
> property is doing well.  I have multiple pears, apples, grapes, peaches,
> figs, etc. etc. all doing well.  My plum tree is so loaded, literally
> thousands I think, that I would have plenty if I only pick 1 out of
> every 20 on the tree right now.  I've made jam from that tree before,
> but never seen a crop like this.  They are the size of large olives
> right now.  There is a nectarine in the front yard that must have 250
> fruits on it...in the past, I have gotten 1 fruit from that tree.
> Three of my apples have never fruited, but this year they are literally
> covered in pea sized apples.  The blueberries are covered up with
> blooms...It is all amazing.
>
> Bev
>
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> 34.498N 85.076W    Bev is Earth, Ron is Sky
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