Damn. I put in 4 apple trees and some blueberry bushes, but it is gonna be a long time until the trees fruit and a few years before the berries yield anything significant. I dunno if I will even still be living here. 5 grafts on one tree. that's amazing. One of my uncles has a plum apricot nectarine tree, but he has lived in the same house 2 decades. I was able to manage my slugs with bone and blood meal, but in some places they aren't deterred by it anymore. Little bowls of beer inset into the ground work but you have to change the beer a lot. For a while I was taking a midnight trip out to the garden with a bottle, but that's a numbers game I couldn't win.
My thought on the sweetness of the potatoes was that they metabolized their latent glucose almost immediately after being picked, but right out of the field and into a pot of water then my mouth, they were shockingly sweet. I could eat them unseasoned they were so tasty.
