First apple in my garden - What's
that splash of red on our apple tree? Why, it's an apple. Indeed the
very first one on the tree, planted five years ago. While our garden has
proved fruitful, with lots of blackberries (turned into delicious
smoothies by my wife, blended with raspberries and blueberries), sour
cherries, white raspberries and wild strawberries, our apple tree has
not, until now, borne any fruit. So it's a pleasure to see at least one
apple on it.
This is, in any event, a bumper year for Polish
apples; prices have fallen to the point where many growers are not
bothering to pick them. The price for industrial apple (for juice) is 10
grosze a kilo - literally a penny a pound.
Colleagues in the office bring delicious apples in from their family działki,
with the right balance of crispness, sweetness and acidity. The
unsprayed apples might have blemishes and be an odd size, but are
tastier than the standardised hypermarket bought apples. I await with
interest what our first apple will taste like!