October 31, 2024

VIDEO: How to Harvest, Store and Process Apples


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This is the season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, and there’s little to beat the apple tree when it comes to fruitful abundance.

Apples are a much-loved crop in many gardens, but how do you know just when the time is right to pick them? And what do you do with a glut from a generous tree?

In this short video we’ll show you exactly how and when to pick apples and, crucially, how to store and process them so you can enjoy delicious fruits for many months to come.

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29 thoughts on “VIDEO: How to Harvest, Store and Process Apples

  1. Yes, subscribe because why not! This is only one of the better gardening channels on here. 🙂 I really appreciate your tips, I have a really late cooking apple. I'm going to eat pie, pie! ENTIRELY TOO MUCH PIE. 🙂 Maybe some apple sauce…. I have goudreinet, it's gorgeous, lovely, everything a cooking apple can be, dutch variety. <3

  2. We have a 15 year old apple tree (grown from a pip) that never has any apples. What is required to make it fruit? Another apple tree so they can…..birds and the bees? 😉
    What's the natural method apple trees produce fruit? Apple trees have been producing fruit way before humans shown up!

  3. I have a hand crank corer/peeler/spiral cutter. I use it on each apple, and then slice the spiral open to create the rings. set the rings in some lemon water. Drain and freeze! They can later be used for any cooking. They can also be put in the dehydrator or solar oven after they come out of the freezer! (I have only done this with late varieties.)

  4. I was in doubt when opening this video. Why should I bother watching that..

    Now I am glad I clicked the link! Thanks for making these! 😀

  5. I created a casserole my family asks for! I simply brown breakfast sausage (with sage) and add cut up apples and pumpkin. I only add apple juice if the type of apple is firm. Medium oven, 30 minutes or so. Try it! Question the pumpkin? (Don't! It's awesome!) you can substitute sweet potatoes.

  6. You did a nice job with the volume and clarity of this video.
    Very easy to hear and understand even on my old laptop.
    Below is the only way I ever eat apples because I don't really like them that much
    but 2 Honey Crisp apples with some sharp cheese and crackers with Guldens' spicey
    mustard and a glass of chablis or zinfandel is my favorite lunch.
    But I am flexible on the variety of apple and the brand of crackers.
    I also seldom drink wine or eat cheddar cheese without the other 2 parts
    of my 3 piece ensemble. I always slice the apples into thin sections before I begin.
    This is my lunch 2-3 times a week.
    It surprises me sometimes how much the taste of one fruit or vegetable
    can be enhanced by what other things you eat them with.
    WRZ
    Delaware County, PA

  7. It surprises me how many more apples are being bought and consumed across
    the US since retailers recently began packaging apples in pre-sliced sections.
    It is scarey to think that US consumers are apparently either too lazy to slice
    apples themselves or they were not able to think of doing this for themselves.
    (I'm not sure which is worse.)
    I am now 70 yo but still somehow able to slice an apple all by myself !
    When I am no longer able to do this, could someone just dig a hole
    at the local cemetery and drop me in ?
    WRZ
    Delaware County, PA

  8. We have a bumper crop of Empire apples this year, just one really laden tree that was well pruned last year. Once you pick a bunch, how do you treat them while you're getting ready to process into whatever you're making, cider, etc. Someone here thinks you put them all in cold water (whole apples). Is that a good thing to do or do you have other ideas? I understand about longer-term storage of whole apples, but these will be processed in the next week.

  9. I have to harvest a 30 foot tree. Any tips for how to harvest without bruising?

    Also, I've found freshly picked apples can have a powdery texture that costs the mouth. Once off the tree for a few days it goes away.

  10. I also wrap many of my apples in paper before storing them in foam coolers in the garage. One thing it seems to do is isolate one bad apple from the others. I have seen apples in paper go totally bad yet the apples next to it are unaffected.

  11. We have heaps of self-seeding sunflowers scattered all over the property thanks to birds and a few marauding goats. The neighbor brings me jars of honey from his hive each year, because he swears he can tell that his bees have spent a lot of time among our sunflowers!

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