Best crop
Apricots are my husband’s favourite fruit and years ago, our eldest daughter gave us an apricot tree. Every spring, beautiful blossom appeared and set. Every summer, immature fruits dropped to the ground and the harvest of ripe apricots was between two and three.
This year, when just about every other fruit has failed, apart from raspberries, the apricots have excelled themselves. There were a few early droppers, but we were delighted to be able to pick these.
A very wet spring and early summer and little sun or warmth seem to have suited our apricot tree. It’s not a huge harvest, but it’s so much better than it ever has been.
There were more, but they have been consumed!
OH YUM! Consumed in a heart beat I reckon. The only apricots we get up here is in a jar of preserves.
ReplyDeleteQuickly eaten and greatly appreciated.
DeleteHi Janice, your apricots are looking so good. We also have an apricot tree, but it just produces blossom with no fruit setting at all. I think that maybe it is too warm here in Auckland for them to fruit? I hope that your tree continues to give you apricots every year. Hugs, Rose x
ReplyDeleteThank you, Rose. Maybe your apricot tree will surprise you one year.
DeleteOh wow! How lovely to have such a good harvest this year.
ReplyDeleteIt was so pleasing.
DeleteI love apricots too and an elderly neighbour said I was welcome to pick what I wanted from her tree, but her fruit was bird pecked and bug-ridden so I bought apricots at the supermarket instead.
ReplyDeleteIt does seem to be a good year for apricots.
DeleteA wonderful gift from your eldest daughter and now it is providing all these delicious fruits. They must have been doubly enjoyed!
ReplyDeleteThey certainly were and are.
DeleteI have had the same experience... some fruits grow beautifully while, in the same season and the same garden, others can fail totally.
ReplyDeleteI have never planted apricots, but the passion fruits, figs and lemons are delicious while the tomatoes have _never_ succeeded :(
It is odd how some things thrive while others wither and die in the same garden.
DeleteThis year has been a good one for some things in the garden but no good for others. Enjoy those delicious looking apricots.
ReplyDeleteIt has been an odd year, in so many respects.
DeleteI guess it is true what they say. The weather has been miserable for you, but as they say, every cloud has a silver lining.
ReplyDeleteQuite so, and true in other areas of life, too.
DeleteHow interesting that your apricots have ripened, given the relative lack of warmth and sunshine! As you will see on Nobby's post tomorrow (spoiler alert!), water lilies seem to have done well too this year!
ReplyDeleteCheers, Gail.
I've just been reading about water lilies on another blog. I look forward to seeing more in your blog.
DeleteMaybe enough to make apricot jam?
ReplyDeleteNot really. In any case, we'd always rather eat fresh fruit than preserve it or cook it.
DeleteThey look so tempting. I doubt that apricots would do well up here. The birds would have them anyway before we got a chance to pick any, just like our cherries.
ReplyDeleteI think we had about two cherries on our two trees, and neither of them ripened. Sucks boo!
DeleteThey certainly would not do well here at 750 feet altitude in Yorkshire. But we bought a gooseberry bush this year. Small, but 2 berries. The bloody pigeons got one.
ReplyDeleteThat's two more than our gooseberry bushes provided. They never fruited and then they died!
DeleteThe pears look organic and fresh
ReplyDeleteYes, no sprays here.
DeleteHow wonderful to enjoy your fruits. My apple trees are loaded with
ReplyDeleteapples and squirrels and birds and hornets. I'll not taste any! The deer stand at the bottom and catch the drops.
I don't like the sound of the hornets, though I'm told they are quite peaceful if left alone!
ReplyDeleteHi Janice - I could send you to a house in Jhb where I had an enormous apricot tree - packed with fruit every year ... all so delicious. Yours look like real treats ... congratulations to your eldest daughter - good prezzie ... cheers Hilary
ReplyDeleteThat sounds wonderful. I think we're lucky to get any at all, in this country.
DeleteHow nice to be able to grow such a special fruit even if there's just a few.
ReplyDeleteAlison in Wales x
It's quite exciting to have them.
DeleteHow lovely that you had apricots to enjoy! We have plum trees and have made jam some years. The more likely story is that the bears take them first, usually breaking branches. It's become so commonplace and yet it still amazes me to see bears at such close range. Too early to tell what will happen this year.
ReplyDeleteI would love to see bears in the wild, even at the cost of losing fruit. Our plum trees did nothing this year.
DeleteYUM! Fresh apricots are a rare treat for me.
ReplyDeleteCongratulations on a bumper crop! i know what it is to hopefully plant fruit trees and year after year wait for all the fruit that never comes until you've moved out of the house, then the next family enjoys it. Or too often they don't like ripe fruit dropping on their grass and they cut it down. Either way, I don't want to know about it.
ReplyDeleteWe did think ourselves lucky.
DeleteSo nice to see this crop, I'm sure they were so enjoyable.
ReplyDeleteAll the best Jan
They were certainly appreciated:-)
ReplyDeleteFinally a substantial crop. Congratulations and continue to enjoy! I never had a fresh apricot as a child, only canned ones, which I detested. What a difference fresh makes! They don't grow where I live, alas, and they are hard to get fresh.
ReplyDeleteWe are lucky to live on our little island, where just about everything is available. I don't appreciate that until I read comments like yours.
DeleteUy me dio ganas de duraznos. Te mando un beso.
ReplyDeleteThey are delicious.
ReplyDeleteI love apricots and it looks like you got a bumper crop. Enjoy
ReplyDeleteWe found a couple more today, so it's all good.
DeleteAt least the wet Spring and out-of-sync Summer have been good for something! Those apricots do look delicious! xxx
ReplyDeleteThey are delicious, so I'm told. I steer clear as they're really for Barry.
DeleteHow wonderful - I love apricots. xx
ReplyDeleteStrangely, we've had no plums or damsons, which I find surprising.
DeleteGreat crop. I hope this is the start of bigger and better apricot harvests.
ReplyDeleteHere's hoping:-)
DeleteHow wonderful to be able to grow apricots! They look beautiful, and I can almost taste them.
ReplyDeleteGrowing apricots outside in UK was unheard of in the past, but new varieties and, gulp, a changing climate have made it possible .
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