composting fruit

I am about to take over a new garden that has been idle since last summer, and most of its abundance of apples were left to fall and rot around the tree. They have since been moved to the compost heap site, but the sheer quantity of them makes me concerned they could spoil rather than enhance the compost, I would welcome some guidance please.

 

I'm no composting expert, but my feeling is that too much of anything isn't good. How about doing what I do when I have a particularly big load of any one thing - which is to split it up, and just put a manageable amount of it in, add other things, and so on, layering it, and then, of course use a fork to get it all mixed in?

You are likely to find you get quite a few wasps around if you have fruit in, which puts some people off - we had a hornet last year! :eek: But I like to put in everything that hasn't been cooked (no meat, etc, of course..... don't want to attract in foxes,etc!)

 

Thanks for that, but I should have said "trees", there really is a lot, probably hundreds. I am tempted to just bury any more than I can break up with the existing compost. And I think wasps may be the least of the problems having read about these mammoth hornets that are moving this way apparently.