The first apple!

By Monica on September 22nd, 2007

Four years ago I planted three dwarf apple trees in our front yard. Every fall I have to fence them off to keep the deer away, but the trees still tend to look like bonsai creations from the deer nibbling off whatever branches they manage to reach. The least deer abused tree finally produced a single apple this year. Digging holes, carting buckets of water, fertilizing and fencing off for four years - behold the fruit of my labor!