My tree is more than a beautiful leafy piece of nature. It should be retiring from the fruit bearing business like people say I should be doing at my age, but it is flourishing like never before. It depends on other apple trees and bees to pollinate and bear fruit, as I rely on my family, friends, and business associates to live a full and productive life. It lost a big piece of itself, just like my heart lost a significant piece of its pumping capacity. The GIF dimensions 245 x 245px was uploaded by anonymous user. It almost died around the same time I almost died 14 years ago. Open & share this animated gif tree, apple, looks, with everyone you know. Last year, he was so discouraged by the bad weather he told me he was thinking of cutting down his trees and building homes on the property. He says that this year’s crop will be the best since 2018 because of favorable growing conditions. He fills two half bushels, and his son brings them to the trunk of my car. Last year, we made two big pots of sauce from an assortment of apples grown at the farm of my apple merchant who comes to the weekly Farmers Market I go to Frankfort, Illinois. I am hoping this year Noah and his wife Stephanie will join Risa and I to make applesauce from the Graff-Pinkert apples. ![]() I think 2022 will be its biggest crop by far. But my tree seems like a youngster having found new life after almost dying. The books say 35 to 40 years is the lifespan of an apple tree. And her apple turnovers made with leftover apples were to die for. I think of my mother, Thais Graff, who cherished her two apple trees and flowering crabapple, and made the most wonderful apple pies in the world. Just looking at it thrills me and revitalizes my spirits. I visit the tree every day I am at the building. But this year, the tree, in its 40th season, has had a sensational crop of young apples growing robustly. Last year was very cold in the late spring, and the crop was meager. We started spraying it in the early spring to ward off the pests. But it survived in a truncated version, lush and green every year growing alongside its ugly brown branches.Ībout four years ago, we got a few apples almost out of nowhere. I assumed the apple tree I viewed out of my window every day was barren even though it had grown to be 25 feet high and was leafy and even had a few blossoms in June every year. It had no other trees to pollinate with.Ībout 15 years ago, we planted two more apple trees on the other side of the building. I only planted one tree, and I expected it to magically bear fruit. I love apples, and I wanted to watch the tree grow and bear fruit, along with the business it was close to. ![]() The soil next to the building had been scraped off to accommodate our parking lot, but I planted it anyway. When I was a young man and we moved into our new warehouse in Oak Forest, IL, one of the first things I did was plant an apple tree.
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