Any Uses For Crab Apple ?

[Ridgerunner]

We used another term for that but since this is a family forum I won't repeat it.

You never used real apples as weapons? What a deprived childhood.

 

[seedcorn]

My sister and I used to pickup the rotten ones and throw them at each other...View attachment 22306

So did we. Not rotten ones HURT.

 

[thistlebloom]

We used another term for that but since this is a family forum I won't repeat it.

You never used real apples as weapons? What a deprived childhood.

We had more pucky than real apples.

 

[Nyboy]

Fun I dont think the wildlife eats them. Trees still have them till almost spring. The red apples really stand out on bare trees.

 

[Carol Dee]

Fun I dont think the wildlife eats them. Trees still have them till almost spring. The red apples really stand out on bare trees.

Then just enjoy the beauty.

 

[LocoYokel]

We had the golfball sized crabapples when I was a kid. I remember Mom making spiced crabapples with Red Hots, super good! I bet your smaller ones would work even better, no dribbles.

 

[digitS']

I know of a park with a crabapple grove and a sign designating it as such. However, there is one tree with fruit bigger than golfballs. A few times I was there the right week and would fill my pockets with the fruit. Because - they were as tasty as most any eating apple .

There is now a volunteer sapling beside the wild plum at the big veggie garden. I didn't notice it until I was searching that plum for a remaining fruit. There was about 5 this year and I missed them until after they had fallen. Missed the memories of a childhood with wild plum jam, @aftermidnight .

The 3 or 4 fruit on the sapling caught my eye, altho wrong color. It's a crabapple! tttTTartt!

'teve

 

[aftermidnight]

Ahhh, plum jam, but it has to be damson plum jam like my gran used to make..
Does anyone grow damson plums any more, not around here and this is a plum you never see in supermarkets .

Annette

 

[digitS']

No. They were Klamath plums, from southern Oregon, @aftermidnight .

Dad would go hunting with Grover, his good friend and a former resident of Lakeview, in a kinda wild part of Oregon. Even if he didn't bring home a deer, he would have a couple of buckets of wild plums.

What that tree is doing up here, I don't know. It fails each year to make many plums after flowering profusely. I think that daylight hours prompts it to flower but it's too early in this location, about 400+ miles too far north. Frost kills the fruit.

Klamath Falls and Lakeview are plenty high and cold but so far south, the flowering probably occurs at the correct time.

Steve

 

[Gardening with Rabbits]

I was using "horse apples" the way you would use "cow pie".