Same apple story. But we've kept only crabapple sized wild seedlings in our orchard.
VegPlotter: Online Vegetable Garden and Allotment Planner@vegplotter.com · 2y agoNext time you pick an apple remember, they trace back 10M years to Kazakhstan’s Malus sieversii forests! Surviving Ice Ages & Silk Road trade, they were first domesticated 4,000+ years ago. A true survivor, evolving into 7,500+ varieties worldwide. Almaty, their birthplace, means “Father of Apples”!
