seems quite common, I also have same problem. We had very heavy rain combined with strong winds just as blossom was at it's best so only got a few apples where tree was sheltered by an ash and a wild damson which we had been wondering about trimming back to let in more light - glad we didn't at least there are a few apples!!
we are south east so no heavy late frosts but yep i think i agree with all of you, mother nature has intervened, and we wont have fruit this year thanks again for all your replys, jo
Last year we had so many apples I didn't know what to do with them and ended up giving them away by the sackful. So far this year - nothing. The weather is definitely odd this year and I'm thinking that's why there's so few currently showing on the trees.
We had the most wonderfulm erfumed and incredible show of apple blossom this year, then it was bitter cold and there was not a pollinator insight!! Had I been a bee I would have stayed indoors too - lack of pollinators in poor weather is the cause of reduced fruit set this year.
It was reported in the paper the other day that commercial orchards were suffering, too, and that it was expected that the harvest will be pretty poor this year. My apple tree, usually reliably pollinated by next door's tree, is barren this year.
Our two best-cropping apples trees, which are fairly early ones, are doing well, but those that blossomed a bit later have very little fruit. I think this is probalby because in March there was that lovely warm weather (remember it? Hot sun, trips to the beach...) and the bees were very active. But a few weeks later it was too cold and windy for the bees to get out much, and I think the later apples probably just didn't get pollinated.
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seems quite common, I also have same problem. We had very heavy rain combined with strong winds just as blossom was at it's best so only got a few apples where tree was sheltered by an ash and a wild damson which we had been wondering about trimming back to let in more light - glad we didn't at least there are a few apples!!
Me too! I am right down on South Coast, but this is the first year my Egremont Russett has had nothing on it
But I do have 5 pears!!
we are south east so no heavy late frosts but yep i think i agree with all of you, mother nature has intervened, and we wont have fruit this year
thanks again for all your replys, jo
Last year we had so many apples I didn't know what to do with them and ended up giving them away by the sackful. So far this year - nothing. The weather is definitely odd this year and I'm thinking that's why there's so few currently showing on the trees.
Just been to look at my apple tree-there are the usual,small ones dropping off in the June drop-will then thin them out in a few weeks.
So in a few months if you can form an orderly queue at my place...........
We had the most wonderfulm erfumed and incredible show of apple blossom this year, then it was bitter cold and there was not a pollinator insight!! Had I been a bee I would have stayed indoors too - lack of pollinators in poor weather is the cause of reduced fruit set this year.
It was reported in the paper the other day that commercial orchards were suffering, too, and that it was expected that the harvest will be pretty poor this year. My apple tree, usually reliably pollinated by next door's tree, is barren this year.
Our two best-cropping apples trees, which are fairly early ones, are doing well, but those that blossomed a bit later have very little fruit. I think this is probalby because in March there was that lovely warm weather (remember it? Hot sun, trips to the beach...) and the bees were very active. But a few weeks later it was too cold and windy for the bees to get out much, and I think the later apples probably just didn't get pollinated.
I'm in Shropshire, I have two apples and one pear.......however, I have more strawberries than I can eat !
Thats another price hike at the supermarkets then and potatoes I bet
Ive no apples on my two trees