Comments on: The espalier orchard gets a new look

By: Suzanne Morelli

Suzanne Morelli — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 22:46:27 +0000

Hi Martha - just a quick comment on the cover of your Halloween Issue...you look so fantastic along with your beautiful horse!!
You always out due yourself every year!
Can't wait for your new season to start!!

By: Cindy Bricker

Cindy Bricker — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 21:26:46 +0000

The end-product of your espaliered orchard is superb, Martha - so neat and tidy, which is what I like! All the sweat-in-the-eyes moments and the muchly needed cast-iron-hinged-back are sooo worth it, when you get to stand back, then, and survey your own handiwork! I just bask in it, and take it all in when everything (at my humble abode) is edged, and trimmed, and dead-headed while all-the-while still blooming beautifully amongst an Ireland-green backdrop sustained from precious summer rainfall! THAT is MY soul-food which never makes me full.
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I personally noticed the orchard in some mid/late summer photos of some goings-on there at your farm and tho't it was coming along nicely. Do keep us posted on its progress, as it IS one (of several) favorite focal points there in your general overall 'gardens'! (Oh!...in which bed is that very large birdbath gracing?...I haven't seen that yet this summer! I WANT it! [giggle] )
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"The only limit to your garden is at the boundaries of your imagination."--Thomas D Church

By: Sophie

Sophie — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 21:16:57 +0000

Looks glorious. I love trained fruit trees, so Victorian

By: Judy Riggins

Judy Riggins — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 18:21:05 +0000

Hi Martha,
I'm getting on in years and have semi-retired so now I can catch your show once in awhile. I've enjoyed it as long as you have been on but usually only when I was home from work sick!
I LOVE your blog and am happy that you encouraged viewing it during your show. I never dreamed I'd get to comment!
Thanks for all you have done for the art of "home making".
Sincerly,
Judy

By: Linda

Linda — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 17:27:15 +0000

Love your apple orchard. I am looking forward to the crop of apples that will hit the supermarkets. Just bought more peaches. The season of peaches is coming to a close. Cleaned, chopped and froze ziploc bags full of fresh peaches for the winter. Come December, I will have summer peaches for a crisp or oatmeal.

Linda
Phila., PA

By: liisamarja

liisamarja — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 07:49:41 +0000

i have to confess, i'm quite jealous of the amount of apples your trees are bearing. we have 3 big old apple trees that usually produce more than i know what do with. this spring a hail storm hit us right when the trees were blooming, so we are only getting approx 60 apples among the 3 trees. that's enough for a few apple pies but not for the amount apple sauce i was hoping to make. well, i'm hoping next spring will be warmer...

By: Jan Erickson

Jan Erickson — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 03:17:11 +0000

Hi Martha, What a fabulous lesson provided by you and Shaun! Your farm is the first place I would love to visit if I ever come to New York. I love everything about it. Shaun is a fantastic gardner. Comparing the first and the last photo is by far the best gardening I have seen since you used to do it on your old TV show. Where did he learn all of these skills? He is an exceptionally talented guy! Kudos to Shaun and you for this great blog! Keep it coming! Jan

By: http://andyjspencer.blogspot.com/

http://andyjspencer.blogspot.com/ — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 02:34:39 +0000

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From pretty apple fields to the hookings of business, I read from this blog of INspection and inTROspection!
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From the face on this head
Comes bales of words.
"Run mouther, run mouther,
Chew apples, cook curds!"
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Bring plum pie
To Muffet's tuffet on high.
Face clickity clacking
And paperweight smacking.
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Word artist, paint artist, dance artist twirl!
No ones eyes lifting, shhh, appraising a pearl.

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At midnight I'm wondering,
Sipping applesauce curry,
What goodness to Heavens was all the brush
Hurry.
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I know the good youee & the silly I eye
Both love apples & hay bales and fish on the
Fry.
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But Persona takes Person now & then fly and by.
They go Packaged as prOduct. No time to say HI.
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Lovely lost. Turn the sheets down. Put the foot On the brakes.
Cover up, buried sleepless in styro
Foam bubbleee flakes.

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From both sides of the coin, now favoring the apple, not the sauce.....
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Andr..and Weims

By: Sherry

Sherry — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 22:42:26 +0000

I remember the blog, & I can't believe it was last April; that went by fast! How beautiful the orchard looks, can't wait to see it next year.

By: Trish

Trish — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 20:39:22 +0000

I have never seen a more beautiful orchard. Kudos to Shaun. Please let us know if the apples are tasty. Trish