"Spider" wrote in message
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"Steve Harris" wrote in message
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My 'Ashmeads Kernal' is well loaded with fruit and harvest is scheduled
for mid-October.

Meanwhile, it is shedding a lot of small apples - some of which show
signs
of insect damage.

* Should I be composting this windfall?
* Just leave it where it falls?
* Or maybe I should be destroying it to disrupt pest life-cycles?
* Is there a good culinary use for undamaged fallers?

Thanks!

Steve Harris - Cheltenham - To get my real address, remove the fruit

I see you have plenty of responses for culinary use. However, for those
really damaged fruit, why not put them out for the birds. You could also
chop some up, add a little sugar and put it for hungry butterflies.

Or take then to your local stables, horses will eat them.