Apple photos mostly

Its been raining in Vermont. I took a few photos of one of my apple trees between the storms.

This is a Liberty apple tree planted in November 2021. I plant most of my fruit trees as bare root in the spring but we had just moved in and I was eager to add some fruit trees.

The Liberty apple tree has a reputation as being a low maintenance, early to fruit after planting, and a good producer. This one is definitely healthy and ahead of other trees I planted at the same time.

I picked an apple with some bug damage because it probably wasn't going to be good if left until September to ripen.

We brought it in to try at lunch.

Looks good at least with a good photographer that hid the bug damage lol it was good but sour due to not being ripe.

Random friendly chipmunk photo.

We have a couple of English beech trees in the front of our house. I found and tried a couple of the nuts.

I was excited because there are several large American beech trees on the edge of woods. I noticed some beech nuts on them this year. I was mostly excited because it confirmed my ID of the trees as beech which I was not totally confident in. And it gives another resource to forage if I'm aggressive enough to compete with the squirrels 😆 the American beechnuts are different. I'll see if I can find some and share them in a later post.