by the sixteenth of june the three apple trees i had planted four days earlier had shocked so badly that i thought they might not survive...i had loosened the soil around the area i was planting them in and enriched it with compost and manure...on top of that i had them in the front picture window in full sunlight ( it faces west ) for thirty-five days before i planted thinking that would harden them off...it did not and they immediately began to shed leaves, seemingly dying from the bottom up as leaves withered and died from the ground up...happily nine days later they are recovering and all are displaying signs of new and healthy growth on top as well as renewed greening of the leaves that were left form the die-off...i am relieved that i did not kill the little fellows...now it is a matter of keeping them healthy and shepherding them through their first winter in one piece...i may be any number of years away from my first apples ( if i get there at all) but the experience is good...with some work i may acquire enough skill to deliver fruit.
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