4 Apple Varieties on a Single Tree

Planting season has also started (see last post on porcino season). Thanks to Peter Coendet’s professional connection to Glauser’s Bio Baumschule in Noflen (BE) we planted an organically grown apple tree with four varieties of apples on a single tree. Three of them (from left to right Ariwa, Topaz, Opal, Julia is missing) are seen on this picture:

Our last Saturday thus involved digging, planing and a small party around the tree:

We also planted a new row of rasberries (Primalba, Amira and Regina) a grape (Vitis Ferninand Lesseps) and a cornelian cherry (Schönbrunner Gourmet Dirndl):