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  • From: "Doreen Howard" <gardendiva@charter.net>
  • To: "nafex mailing list at ibiblio" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [nafex] how to tell if apples are ripe?
  • Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2012 17:06:31 -0500

Bagging apples in the spring when I thin takes care of critter problems for me. And, my apples are totally organic! I live out in the country where the squirrel, coon, possum, rabbit, wild turkey, fox and deer population is huge. Bagging is the only way I get fruit from my eight trees.
Doreen Howard
Zone 5--IL/WI Border


-----Original Message----- From: Ginda Fisher
Sent: Sunday, August 26, 2012 4:43 PM
To: NAFEX Fruit Explorers
Subject: [nafex] how to tell if apples are ripe?

I have a Jonathan apple tree with about 2 dozen large apples hanging from it. This is a very unusual occurrence, as squirrels have removed all the fruit by mid-August in every recent year.

How can I tell when to pick them? Probably I should pick some now, even if they aren't fully ripe, just to get some apples. You never know what critter will take an interest in the tree tomorrow, after all.

Thanks,
Ginda
eastern MA, zone 6
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