Julie & Chris & Graham

I checked the website to see if the apple trees had been shipped yet, and found the order had been cancelled.  When i called to find out why, the short answer was they sold more trees than they had.  This happened because their website does not keep track of inventory, and they sold way more trees than they expected to sell.  This worked out for the best, since I can get the same trees from Miller’s for about $10/tree cheaper.  I used the lower prices as an excuse to buy some other things and picked up a Montmorency Cherry tree, a Kristen Cherry tree, and a Reliance Peach tree.

Spring officially arrived twelve days ago, but we are seeing very few signs of it here in Cherry Valley. Four days ago, we had a snow storm that dropped 8 inches of wet, heavy snow on us, and this past weekend we saw high temperatures around 30 degrees.  Fortunatelly, most of the snow has gone in the last 24 hours because it has warmed up a bit and it rained a lot over night.

Yesterday, we ordered apple trees from Seeds of Change.  The trees are all heirloom varieties, and certified organic.  We ordered Cox’s Orange Pippin, Northern Spy, Snow Apple (also known as Fameuse), and Spitzenburg Apple Trees.  We look forward to planting these trees with Graham in a couple of weeks.