Last fall we discovered a big old apple tree not too far from the house. The apples weren't all that good for eating but I fed them to the deer and took pictures on the trail cam.
We decided to buy a couple of trees right away cuz we like apples and figured that big old tree would be great for pollinating. Lo and behold, both new trees were full of apples this year. One was ready to pick next week and one is a late tree, due in October. Well, we had a visitor last night. He tore up the tree with the ripe fruit, and ate all the apples. He hit the other tree as well. That tree was so loaded, the branches were bent down so he, or she, didn't have to bust up the tree to get the fruit. There's still some apples left but don't know if we should pick them or not. They are still kinda little.
At any rate, we pulled back the two branches on the one tree and wrapped them together. We'll see if that takes. If not, we'll have a really short tree next year.
Oh, and last week I went out and bought yet another apple tree.
And when I lived in Minnesota, all I had to worry about was racoons.... Uffda!!
