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2024 Harvest!

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 Like usual, some stuff did really well. Other things, not so much. Apples, honeyberries, and nectarines got completely stripped by squirrels. So squirrels may have to die a bit next year. They (or something else) also broke both persimmon trees in half. The persimmon trees didn't even have any fruit on them, just a few flowers. Novaspy apple, honeyberries (there's three other bushes that were similar), and Silver Gem nectarines. Like ~50 apples, a couple pounds of honeyberries, and five or six nectarines. I can't find any pics of the persimmon trees, but I assume they got jumped on or something. There wasn't anything edible to steal on them or missing flowers from the top halves of the trees. They would have had five or six persimmons, possibly. The Chicago Hardy fig woke up from the Winter and started growing breba figs on the previous year's growth. They all turned yellow and dropped off, but it's not known to make reliable breba figs.  The current year's...