'Earli Autumn' apricot

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The 'Earli Autumn' apricots are just starting to ripen. They are pictured here moments before I transferred the bird netting from the ‘Moorpark,’ which is the next tree in the row. (If you think it is accidental that successively ripening varieties are planted right next to one another, you clearly have not read my "scientific farming" section of the Mission statement! It is a whole lot easier to move netting between two trees when they are within just a couple of feet of one another.).

'Earli Autumn' is obviously a slight misnomer (unless "earli" means "not yet"). And it is far from the best apricot (that would be the 'Moorpark,' as I frequently say, or the 'Newcastle'). But who can complain about having tree-ripened apricots in the autumn–or even at the peak of summer? Up next (and, of course, also next in the row) is the ‘Autumn Glo,’ though its crop is far lighter than the ‘Earli Autumn.’

(This morning I managed while harvesting to embed something from the mulch in one of my fingers. Painful and hard to type!)

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