Felice Friese wrote:
I have 4 small apple trees from Stark (2 colonnades and 2 "other")
that are finally, this year, bearing apples in abundance. The
squirrels usually get them before they are ripe, and I wonder if
instead of netting the trees I can pick the apples while they are
green and ripen them inside away from the creatures. Any
suggestions? If not, is there anything I can do with green ones?
Last year I made a pomander of one, but dozens of pomanders would
mean a fortune in whole cloves and two wrecked thumbs.

I don't really care for apples all that much, but my husband
planted them before he died and I feel obligated to care for them
on his behalf!

Squirrels never bother my apples.

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Travis in Shoreline (just North of Seattle) Washington
USDA Zone 8
Sunset Zone 5