Tuesday, October 18, 2011

An Apple Harvest

A couple of years ago, I posted about our apple tree which my son grew from the seeds of an apple that he had eaten.  Each fall I keep an eye on the tree hoping for a good harvest.  To my delight, this year I have had just that.  The other afternoon I went out to the tree and started picking, and filled up an entire large basket, as well as part of a plastic bag.  Now to many of you apple harvesters out there, this might not seem like many, but to me it was a lot.  To actually be able to go out to my own tree, pull up a ladder, and pick more than a dozen or so apples was such a treat. 

After picking the apples, I immediately went inside and started making a pie with them.  And of course the pie was to be for my son, now grown up, that planted those little seeds so many years ago.  He came over for dinner and I was so happy to be able to serve him a pie out of his very own apples.  We all took a bite, and to my disappointment the pie really wasn't very good.  The apples were still quite firm, and there just wasn't  much of the good juiciness that usually comes along with an apple pie.  The problem was that I have no idea what kind of apples they are; because really, who would keep track of the type of apple when your 7 year old son wants to eat an apple and plant the seeds to grow his very own tree.  And who really expects that the tree will someday actually grow and bear fruit.  But I'm not giving up, I have enough apples to experiment with them, and plan on trying another pie by cooking the apples first (which I have a recipe that calls for just that), and there is always applesauce. 


7 comments:

Deb from WhatsInMyAttic said...

They look delicious...so great that the seeds from his apple was the source!

Jan said...

Great post! What a wonderful story/memory!

Kathy said...

What a great story .... from the pip to the fruit. We have an apple tree that produces a huge crop of lovely apples, but they don't make good pies either. They're not just not juicy enough for cooking with. Last year i used them for making apple jam.
xxx

Carrie P. said...

That is totally awesome. I had heard it was hard to grow an apple tree from seed. Congrats on that.
And congrats on all those great looking apples.

Tammy said...

How fun! I wish I had room for an apple tree, I'd help my daughter plant one. I'm up to my ears in apples today - making applesauce. I have plenty of seeds to choose from. LOL

Alison said...

We are still growing our little apple trees in our yard that grew from the seeds we planted three years ago, inspired by your post! In fact, I came here today because now my 4 year old wants to plant some, too, and I had to reread the directions. Thanks for such a fun update!

Lisa @celebrate CREATIVITY said...

What a delightful bounty. How lucky you are to have such a tree. I love that the apples were grown from "scratch" as my daughter would say.

You must post pictures of the pies too.

Lovely post and nice to browse your blog too. Enjoy your day.