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Post by Deleted on Dec 1, 2006 9:28:16 GMT
hi all, probably a stupid question, but it's all new to me: we have some of those minarette trees and the braeburn and conference pear still have very firmly attached fruit, but no leaves.
Having read in an earlier thread you pick when they fall into your hand with a slight 'lift' (these don't) I'm in a quandary: I'm happy to leave them, it's a rather nice reminder of limited sucess, but will the quality of the fruit deteriorate?
D.
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Post by sweetleaf on Dec 1, 2006 9:37:49 GMT
Id pick them, if they get frozen, youll have nothing but apple sauce when they defrost. but I agree they look nice on the tree.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 9, 2006 14:54:12 GMT
Move them about a bit gently, even give the fruit a twist. They really should be ripe by now.
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Post by 4pygmies on Dec 9, 2006 16:19:11 GMT
I agree with Sweetleaf - if you don't pick them you might lose them. If they won't twist off cut them with secateurs so you don't damage the fruit. As Gertrudej2nd says they really should be ripe now - if they're not they won't get any riper outside in the cold!
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Post by Deleted on Dec 10, 2006 17:36:57 GMT
Well, I paid the price for leaving them as long as I did - every apple has peck marks, not very visible until I was up close.
Ate the one with the least - very nice - and took the pears, but left the others for the birds.
Thanks for trying to put me right...
dd.
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Post by 4pygmies on Dec 10, 2006 17:46:15 GMT
Ah well, you live and learn! I must admit that I wasted TONS of our apples this year. It was a bumper harvest and we just got sick of them! Shocking I know......I made pies, jelly etc etc and I fed them to my goats every day too but in the end I ran out of steam. They are now laying all over my garden and we hope the fieldfares will visit because of them. Nothing is ever really wasted....
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Post by oldmoleskins on Dec 10, 2006 17:55:50 GMT
love fieldfares... felt my dad used to call them... and redwings, sometimes see those...
OM
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Post by 4pygmies on Dec 10, 2006 17:58:07 GMT
I know! Aren't they lovely birds? It's not really cold enough for them to come over here yet is it? They'd better hurry up before the rats finish off their banquet.
Shall we have a twitchers thread?? (I'm not a twitcher, I have to go and ask my elderly parents next door to identify odd birdy visitors). That might be quite interesting...
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Post by oldmoleskins on Dec 10, 2006 18:16:53 GMT
I know! Aren't they lovely birds? It's not really cold enough for them to come over here yet is it? They'd better hurry up before the rats finish off their banquet. Shall we have a twitchers thread?? (I'm not a twitcher, I have to go and ask my elderly parents next door to identify odd birdy visitors). That might be quite interesting... I expect they're about in the open fields, but haven't been pushed into the hedgerows yet... a twitcher's thread? with pics? why not? OM. ps, sorry dd, but it's not exactly off-topic...you mentioned birds first... get a pic of whatever's pecking your braeburn's! |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 17, 2007 17:09:30 GMT
Sorry to have neglected this thread - did anyone start a twitcher's thread? Can't see one...
DD
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Post by Chuckles on Jan 17, 2007 19:21:58 GMT
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