Apple Harvest

I picked apples this morning, and as you can see from the pictures they are quire large and healthy.
Thing is, I purchased this tree many years ago as a "Crispen"
It has never really produced apples to the taste I remember as Crispens.
Anyhow thought I would share these with you .
Looks like apple pies all round for a day or two...




robert

 

Yes.. sure does look like a busy weekend.

 

We puree many of our apples and freeze it so we have lots to use for all sorts of different things in the winter. We also juice a lot and that also may be frozen for future consumption. Mind we have 14 apple trees which produce a fair number of fruits.

 

14 trees... wow, I reckon you are going to be busy for awhile.

 

Carl... Lazy weekend..?. Its my bet you will get involved with something over the wekend.....

 

I reckon this season has been a good one for apples. One of our old trees that normally produces small, poor quality apples, this year has excelled itself. The fruit is twice the size it is normally with a really sharp taste but I'm going to leave them a few more weeks before I harvest them, even our solitary pear tree has made a reasonable effort this year. Soft fruit on the other hand is abysmal this year, no plums, no denbigh plums and very few damsons. Nature's doing strange things.

 

sorry to but in but do sqirrels like apples ? as at the beginning of the summer I had about 30/40 may of been 10/20 :-) apples on my little tree but slowly one by one theyv'e all dissapeard,nothing on the ground not a single apple left !!!!

 

Good question!

My neighbour's "eater" tree was badly battered by the winds we had earlier in the year, which apparently stripped nearly all the apples, but there were very few windfalls to pick up!
I thought maybe rats? Squirrels sounds more likely though....

 

I find starlings are the problem.