Apples 2023

Here are my plans for this winter's tree orders:

Prairie Hardy nursery

Apples:
Variety - Ripening - Storage

**Goodland - August/September - 4mos
Lee #7 - early Sept - 2mos
M360 (morden 360) - mid-Sept - 6mos
Minnesota 1734 (minnesota russet!) - October - 2mos
**Minnesota #447 (Frostbite) - late Sept - all winter
Misty Rose - early Sept - 2mos
**Morden russet (!!) - late Sept - "several months"
**Norkent - mid Sept - 3mos
Prairie Sensation - mid-Sept - 4mos
Red wonder - ? - 1 month
September Ruby - mid-Sept - 4mos
Trailman crab - early Sept - 2mos
Simonette - early Sept - 3mos

Denman Apples

Duchess of Oldenberg - August - no storage
Glowing Heart - late Sept - ?
Lord Lamborne - late Sept - 1mos
Discovery - August - red flesh

AppleLuscious

Almata
Clifford
Geneva 163
Niedzwetskyana
Sweet 16
Winesap
Wynoochie early
Winekist

Research

Wealthy
Sweet Sixteen
Trust
Wealthy
Pekka
Pink pearl (?)

Pepper harvest

Today I harvested some seeds from chimayo peppers (sweet, very early, a little spicy) and Aji Lucento (fairly spicy, very juicy, it's a pubescens, also the earliest of my pubescens, less spicy as it ripens).

Apple Guilding

I have three apple trees to plant. They're Zestar! on unknown rootstock from byland nursery's incredible edibles line. Will refine this later.

What will I guild them with? Options.

Red Velvet gooseberry
Pixar gooseberry
Unknown haskap
Ron's rose (thicketing, multipetaled)
Rosa cinnamomea
Clove currant
Rescued gooseberry?
Raspberry - Anne or SK bounty or Hoyne

Valiant grape
La crescent grape
Marquette grape

Mint - groundcover, north side
Sweet ciciley - pollinators, height
Asparagus - I like asparagus, south or west side
Rhubarb - mulcher
Comfrey - mulcher
Skirret? - root
Baby horseradish
Potato or walking onions - insect deterrant


Would need more maintenance: raspberry would need to be kept from spreading too much, sweet ciciley and comfrey a little bit each. Grapes might overwhelm apple tree. Asparagus and skirret would need to be out from the trunk a bit. Asparagus close to comfrey for accumulator/fertility reasons.

For sure use:
mint as groundcover in all (different mints in all, start on north side)
comfrey and/or rhubarb as mulcher - hm, one each?
onions as insect repellent - in all
red velvet (1) pixar (1) and clove currant (1) - one each
ron's rose x2, cinammomea rose (1) - one each
asparagus and sweet ciciley on fringe

Devotions

I figured out what it was in my communication that led mom to cut down that side of the house. I feel so much better now.

Mom is gone home now, and home safe, and I'm down in the quiet basement for a couple nights until my next guest gets here. The guest after that will share a bed so after that I'm no longer limited to space.

Brassica carinata is the best. It's tasty and succulent.

My corn is beautiful <3 <3

Clean sheets, showered, few bugs. Home feels like luxury.

I should be working outdoors tomorrow, that's pretty great.

My yard is full of ducklings. They are cute.

The clothes dryer has such a soothing background hum-thump.

And I can slide into sleep, just like that.