Give us apples
Dec 12, 2018
4 minutes
JACKIE FRENCH is the author of The Chook Book (Aird Books). Her oldest chook, Gertie, is now 17. Although Gertie’s sisters have all long since fallen off the perch, Gertie still lays extremely large brown eggs most days of the year. Get in touch with Jackie via facebook.com/authorjackiefrench, twitter.com/jackie_ french_ and instagram.com/jackie_ french_.
There is one fruit tree that survives. Give it frost, neglect, drought, heat, wind or cold and it still fruits. It is so hardy it will grow from an apple core thrown out of a car window and then give crops of fruit for decades, almost invariably pest free.
There are wild apple trees by the road
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