[TheForge] The hard cider is good... OT:

[Andrew Vida]

peter fels & phoebe palmer wrote:
> 
> On 10/19/2010 11:28 PM, Mike Spencer wrote:
>>
>> We have an August apple tree so I got 5 gallons of cider in August
>> this year.  Nice to have it in hot weather.  Has a beer-sparing
>> effect. :-) It was one of only two trees that produced well.
> Our little apple  trees had a hard time this year too..windstorm just 
> after they set
> followed by a very foggy summer.

Ours went bananas.  On a half dozen trees I would estimate between 3000 
and 4000 apples.  Branches broke. :(  But the cider is so sweet we cut 
it with seltzer.  We started eating them in mid-july and still have a 
few hundred left on the branches.  Trees need pruning badly as the 
previous owners did not tend to them well at all and their stoopid 
foogin' horses cribbed the hell out of them.  I want to get maybe 
another dozen in, and cherries, more peaches and pears, plums, etc.