Posted on 10/03/2021 1:03:07 PM PDT by thecodont
God bless you.
Thanks for that info. I can see how you would go a lot faster with juice apples if you don’t worry about bruising or a half-ton of apples on top of the bottom row in the bin.
LOL…spot on! These people can.take the joy out of anything! Seems to be their mission in life.
I love your clammer’s shirt! The aching back and flies are a nice touch.
i live in the fear free state of florida...
some orange trees have thorns too...
In college and several years after, my wife and I spent almost every vacation kind of time with my New Mexico family. I was there so much that it did cause a problem premarriage that one time when we were walking down a street in Santa Fe when a very comely Spanish girl walked up to me and said hello to me by name, etc. I had to do some serious making up to the future wife! Lol.
Anyway, apples. I was at my cousin’s, wife's parents house in Santa Fe in the fall after fiestas and Sr. Benevides, the grand father, steered me to the garage Boom! Apple scent knocked me over! He had his crop of apples stored in the cool garage. He insisted on gifting me a crate of apples and I have never had any better before or since.
What led to this though was a number of years going to the family gatherings at the 4th of July or fiesta that were at at the family farm in Chimayo, New Mexico. An apple orchard, a stream, swimming pond and amazing NM food. I miss that.
Very nice! Leaf peepers are showing up now. Summer complaints are still here.
A dying way of picking apples.
The future is high density orchards using small trees staked and wire guyed with drip irrigation and fences to keep out deer. With this sort of setup, no need for tripod ladders - a cart that is driven by pickers has room for four pickers at two different heights is used to pick.
The orchard across the road is about 25 years old and will be torn out in a few weeks. They don’t even need to wait 3-4 years and plant other crops before they put in a new orchard. They will use GPS geolocation of where the rows of the current orchard are and plant new rows in between. Including root stock it will about $21,000/acre to put in the new orchard.
Heh, “summer complaints”...:)
Ah, soon the leaf peepers will be gone too!
We planted 8 apple trees. Great harvest this year but cannot beat the coddling moths. Regular spraying, dormant oil in the winter, picking up all the dropped fruit and getting rid of them so not to attract bugs and insects.
Any suggestions?
Bingo.
My hands are soft today. I work behind a desk in an office in a controlled temperature environment. But I cannot drive by a roofing crew on a hot day and thank God that I am lucky enough to earn my bread by my brain and not my brawn.
I spent the better part of four years in the USN working on a carrier’s flight deck or out of doors, and gained a healthy respect for those who have to do it.
People like the soy boy who wrote this article, on the other hand...no, THAT other hand!
Luckily, it’s only 2 plants (I’m allowed to have 4). One Sativa and one Indica. I had a male for a while and so now I have seeds (yay). I don’t use, I just grow.
I have harvested the Sativa, it is curing and the Indica is almost ready.
The police brought in the helicopters to catch illegal growing but I was hidden and legal. This county is known for growing lots of Weed.
I enjoyed making it...heh, they would say, if you don’t dig, you don’t eat! And his elderly grandmother of Acadian descent lived alone there all those years after her husband Velmour passed away.
Sigh. Walking into my buddy’s grandparents house was like a trip back in time. With the big wooden stove in the kitchen...
She is gone, and they had to sell her house. How I miss her, and her house.
And the clams!
Lawn people definitely have some issues. Then again, I once lived across the street from a person that would vacuum his shrubberies with a really loud shopvac early every Sunday morning right before he would start scrubbing his drive way (No, he wasnt a mechanic, for him that would be dirty and yucky). It could be worse.
As Freshprince points out, once upon a time people knew that the apples in the store were there because they shipped well, not because they tasted good. Different kinds of apples also have different purposes and special purpose apples arent ever in the store.
Unfortunately for those that know better, many orchard owners have gotten away from having much in the way of the non commercial varieties, not that it makes much of a difference as the modern urban agritourist doesnt know the difference anyway.
Yup...we had a freak weather related situation this season...one variety of bosc pears just dropped to the ground one day...
Dormant oil and Springtime spraying always worked for me.
My bane was squirrels. They pick the apples a few days before perfect ripeness, take one bite, and leave the apples on my fence posts. I swear they did it to annoy me. I got revenge, though. I gave 75 squirrels their “final swim” in my big yard waste tub.
We’ve got an orcharidist up the road from us in Athol, Idaho who grows heritage apples. There is a whole society dedicated to discovering lost and abandoned orchards from long ago and reviving the apples. We get some amazing varieties, but I have to admit I really like the newly developed “Cosmic Crisp.” (You have to love that name, too!)
Nothing beats a good small farm-harvested apple in season.
aka "the Olympic swimming pool"...
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