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| Springtime in Maine - click |
...with a donut than apple cider. I can almost taste it now, and it's a little early in the year for fresh Maine apples. Growing an apple crop is a year-round occupation and it requires a lot of time per tree; from some springtime planting of a new variety, summer spraying for insects, picking apples in the fall or pruning the trees in late winter. Each and every things has a pretty specific time in which it needs to be accomplished. It's a challenge to raise a special crop, poor weather in the spring and it's too wet for the bees to pollinate, early summer hail could make for a crop, that while good, isn't pretty; a long hot summer with high temperatures and little rain can stress any crop, and an ice storm in winter can tear branches from a tree until it's destroyed. Weather is a farmers best friend or worst enemy, ask one.
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| A new row of trees, spring planting. |
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| A good crop, Idared in this case |
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| Pruning in late winter |
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