Some of you, gentle readers, are real numbers people. You don't care about anything except the final tally each year, the number of fruits we got from each tree. This post is for you, contextualizing the numbers of the 2018 harvest with the numbers of the 2016 and 2017 harvest.
The Shenandoah
- 2016 final tally: 33
- 2017 final tally: 72
- 2018 final tally: 54
The Atwood
- 2016 final tally: 34
- 2017 final tally: 32
- 2018 final tally: 49
The Wells
- 2016 final tally: 13
- 2017 final tally: 66
- 2018 final tally: 58
The Total
- 2016 final tally: 80
- 2017 final tally: 170
- 2018 final tally: 165
So it was a record year for the Atwood, though the Wells and the Shenandoah underperformed compared to last year. And that threw the narrative of constant progress to pieces, since the total harvest this year was five pawpaws fewer than the total harvest last year. Still, we picked (up from the ground) plenty of pawpaws between August 17th and October 24th. Plenty of pawpaws. And next year I wouldn't be completely surprised if our Susquehanna cultivar bore a few fruits, and then the year after that, onward to the Mango cultivar. (Here I go, in the face of the deflation of harvesting fewer pawpaws this year than last year, still talking the language of "onward" this and "upward" that.)
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