Apples?? Keep Your Fingers Crossed!

    Jeff told me this morning to look out of the window at the apple tree.  Now this is a miniature apple tree that my family planted in 1992 or '93 and while it has blossomed in the past, it has produced apples only once and that was the 1st year Jeff had a garden around it.  That year he had been fertilizing the tomatoes with 'compost tea' and wow, did they grow!  We had a jungle of tomato plants out there!!  (Look back thru the blog to the summer of 2011 to see the photos of that garden!)  Well, since the tomatoes were growing around the apple tree, it benefited from the 'compost tea', too, and that year we got 2 of the largest, most perfect apples I have ever seen.  There wasn't a mark on either one of them.  And when we cut them to eat them, the fruit was perfect all the way thru!!  But, that was the one and only time the tree produced fruit. 
   Other years the tree would start to bloom and we'd get a late frost or something else would hit it and that would be it.  When Jeff said this morning to look at the apple tree I did not expect to find it covered with apple blossoms!  It wasn't that way over the weekend so it must have popped out over night!

       Jeff thinks I should take photos every day so we can keep track of how the tree flowers.  I'm excited!  I hope we get more than 2 apples this year...maybe even enough for a pie!