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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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What areas of the country have cool, frost (freeze) sheds?
Thank you for sharing your good info!
Great video. Thank you!
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
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!
Great info, thanks.
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.)
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! 😀
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.
enjoyed your video
We love this apple recipe: Salted-Butter Apple Galette With Maple Whipped Cream
http://www.bonappetit.com/recipe/salted-butter-apple-galette-with-maple-whipped-cream
great video….your freezer needs a good defrost though ! ha
what about apples that have no outward signs but are brown crumbly inside in places..? I have a dang bumper crop this year and the are fantastically scrumptious..
Apple butter or apple syrup.
Each month I'm looking much further to having a home with room to grow fruits and vegetables. I enjoyed this video and it provided some good information. My favorite use for apples these past months has been Apple Sharlotka from the Smitten Kitchen blog ( https://smittenkitchen.com/2012/01/apple-sharlotka/). It was a big hit last time it was baked for the visit in honor of a young lady named Charlotte.
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
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
We have13 apple trees .
I prefer small paper bags
organic apple vinegar with jaggery cane sugar
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.
hi! this was a fun video. we have green apples. ~F&S (my daughters)
An example of how NOT to pick apples, don't twist! See here … https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSoolTJjapA
wow.
How do you pick the apples at the top of the tree where the ladder can't reach?
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.
Thank you… SO many tips on here for me to start.
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.
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!
I find borage is a great addition to my garden. It self seeds every year and brings in a plethora of pollinators.