5lbs of Unripe Apples
Originally uploaded by mikeysklar
One of our apple trees was sporting a incredible quantity of apples. At one point we considered thinning out the apples, but decided on being greedy and seeing if the tree limbs could take the weight of all hat fruit. Guess what - two large branches broke. This left us with 5lbs of immature apples which are now sitting in a cardboard box. I'm thinking that they might rippen a bit from their own off gassing. His tricked worked on our green tomatoes last fall.
2 comments:
you can use those to make your own pectin and then you can make all kinds of jellies. It works best if they aren't ripe.
I grew up near Sebastopol, CA, which is a huge apple producing area. Once the fruit starts getting big, you see "stilts" going up all around the apple groves. Just take some scrap wood (like a 2x4), cut the length from the branch to the ground and use as a support every year (branches tend to remain the same height, so you can use the same wood annually). This supports the branch throughout fruition.
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