The apricot tree is one of the common fruit trees, and the apricot tree is also a hard wood. Apricot trees are widely distributed, have strong vitality, and are cold and drought resistant.
Every spring, almond trees are fruit trees that bloom earlier. The apricot blossoms are pink. Whenever the apricot blossoms bloom, there will be a large number of bees flying in, some collect honey on the apricot blossoms, some fly among the apricot blossoms, people are far away from the apricot trees, and they can also hear the buzzing of bees.
Apricot blossoms are dense flower species, and after flowering, many flowers will fall to the ground.
The apricot blossoms are afraid of the cold weather in the spring or the extremely cold weather that actually appears, and if they are too cold, they will make the apricot blossoms freeze and fall.
After the apricot blossoms, the small apricots begin to grow. When the small apricot grows to the size of a human finger cover, there are already almonds, but at this time, the appearance of the almonds has been formed, and the inside of the almonds is water.
After a while, the almonds can be eaten.
The apricots growing are green or yellow-green and have a very sour taste.
The ripening period of apricots varies depending on the variety.
There are apricots that ripen when harvesting rapeseed, called vegetable yellow apricots.
There are apricots that ripen after the beginning of the harvest, and there are also apricots that ripen after the wheat harvest.
There are sweet almonds and bitter almonds.
There are naturally growing apricots and there are also grafted sweet kernel apricots.
Apricots can also be dried to make dried apricot slices, which are stored until winter or stored for a long time.
Almonds are one of the main raw firsts used to make fried twist flowers.
After people soak the bitter almonds in water for a long time, the almond skin is removed, and the bitter taste of the bitter almonds is gone or not too bitter.
In different eras, the price of apricots is not the same.
Very long ago, during the period of the rural agricultural production team. There are almond trees for production teams, as well as almond trees for private homes.
The apricots of the production team are knotted and can be eaten by people.
Apricots in private homes, some people eat themselves, some people give them away, some people sell them for money.
At that time, the smallest amount of money people spent selling and buying was a penny. Smaller apricots are one penny a penny, and large sweet apricots are five cents a piece. There are also people who sell apricots for a dime, such as ten apricots for a dime, or eight apricots for a dime. You can also exchange food stamps or cloth tickets for apricots, and sometimes you can also exchange other items for apricots.
At that time, apricots were one of the main fruits in the countryside.
With the planting of apple trees in large areas in the countryside, fewer people planted almond trees, and fewer people bought apricots.
Now, there are almond trees in the countryside, and as a fruit variety tree, the almond tree will never disappear.
Apricots are a fruit and a sign of climate change. Almond trees bloom, heralding the arrival of spring. The apricots turn yellow, indicating that the harvest season is approaching.
The apricot leaves are sweet in taste and broad in the leaf surface. Apricot leaves can be fed to sheep, rabbits, etc. In winter, apricot leaves are still a better kind of firewood.
The disadvantage of apricots is that they are intolerant to storage. Although the time to eat apricots in summer is longer, when it comes to a certain tree of a certain tree species, it is not easy to store and is easy to rot after maturity.
Apricots can't be eaten too much either. Eating too many apricots, people will be physically sleepy, the so-called peach full of apricots hurt people is this truth!
In the past, after people ate apricots, they would take the apricot pot home and smash the almonds to eat or sell for money.
Almonds are also a kind of medicinal materials, and every year after the summer harvest, some people specialize in buying almonds or selling them in medicinal materials purchase stores.
The apricot tree, or apricot, is also an unforgettable memory for the elderly today.
Today's rural elderly, in the childhood, pick green apricots to eat or eat sweet almonds in the spring, and specifically look for wild apricots or pick apricots under trees in the summer, that kind of happy time is a good memory.