Today was a nice sunny day and we decided we had better pick the rest of the apples off the tree. The birds were eating into the apples right off the tree, and the wasps were digging into some of them, too. I don't mind feeding wildlife, but I draw the line on them eating MY apples! (Especially when I sell them at my farm market booth! Now we are talking money!) I think most folks in the country pick apples in late September or October, but up here in northern Minnesota, "fall" is just about now. And so is the apple picking season. In about 3 weeks the fall colors on the trees will be at peak color or beyond, and by October 1st we are looking at bare trees again for six months. So it made good sense to get the rest of the apples today. Oh, what a crop we had this year! When our two other apple trees put out this many apples, we will have to have a U-Pick operation I think!
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| Most of the remaining apples were up high, so between a ladder, the pickup truck and our apple picking pole we had our work cut out for us this morning! |
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| Harold uses the apple picker he made on a long pole to get some of the good ones from the top of the tree. |
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| Harold made this apple picker years ago from 1/8 inch rods that he welded and bent, and we put this on an old paintstick pole that extends. It does a great job reaching those high up apples with little or no effort. |
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| Here are 3 more tubs of apples! Our Prairie Magic apple tree is 9 years old and gave us hundreds of apples this year. We also have for future growing a Zestar tree and a Cortland tree. |
1 comment:
Looking good! Beautiful day for apple picking too. That 'picker' looks like it could double for a back scratcher? Did I send you pix of my apple tree/apples?? The apples are about 50 cent size now and just on one branch. It's a root growth from the tree that Mother Nature ripped out of there several years ago. Happy munching.
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