Almond or peach? New Brunswick gardener produces unexpected harvest
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Brenda Tremblay has been an avid gardener for the last 40 years, but this year’s harvest in Colpitts Settlement, N.B., is a tough nut to crack.
Brenda Tremblay has been an avid gardener for the last 40 years, but this year’s harvest in Colpitts Settlement, N.B., is a hard nut to crack.
“I told everybody it’s not going to produce anything, it’s just an almond tree that’s not going to produce, but obviously it did,” she said. “It bloomed for the first time when I was looking out my office window. I said, ‘What is all over my tree?’ It looked like popcorn, so I come out and investigated and it was all blooming.”
It all started about seven or eight years ago and Tremblay says it was by accident.
“I had Christmas nuts and I put them in my cupboard and then I was cleaning my cupboard out and I said, ‘They’re going in the compost in the garden.’ The next spring, voilà, there’s an almond growing in my garden,” she laughed.
She says the seedling sprouted out of an almond casing and she thinks that produce is now filling the branches.
Almond trees are not native to New Brunswick or even Canada.
