The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #96226   Message #1878288
Posted By: Mo the caller
07-Nov-06 - 10:16 AM
Thread Name: BS: Help! A plethora of apples!
Subject: RE: BS: Help! A plethora of apples!
Take them to your folk club. If the club supports a charity put out a cup for donations.
I started picking my eaters too late this year,lots fell off, the dance club have eaten all the windfalls, at the rate we eat them the stored eaters will be finished before Christmas.

I've got a plastic bottle on a long plastic stick (narrow pipe) to pick them into , which saves some of the climbing. Cut off end, attatch neck to stick, a notch to trap the fruit stem. If they are ripe they fall into bottle (if not the apples on the same branch fall on your head as you shake the branch). Also useful, 2 sticks with cuphooks (large & small) to pull the branch or twig within reach.