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Where have my apples gone?
After coming back from vacation in the fall I found all of my yellow
delicious apples GONE..there was absolutely no trace of anything. I was going to report it to our local police but then I considered how foolish that would be. The following year I found out who and what happened. Grey Squirrels I watched in disbelief as they stripped that tree of all it's fruit, not one was eaten or dropped and they were huge..most likely squirrels are your problem. "brooklyn1" wrote in message ... On Mon, 28 Sep 2009 12:12:02 -0400, Frank wrote: Hector Hound wrote: Hi. My first post is a puzzle. My apples have disappeared! I have two trees, about four years old. One day last week, there were all my apples - gone. Well, all except for a few at the top of each tree, from about five feet upwards. The grass underneath the trees was trampled and there were no apples on the ground. I know the obvious answer is kids and if I can't find another I'll have to settle for that. The problem is that, for various reasons, I think it's unlikely in this case. Based on the height of the apples that were left, they would have been very small kids - too young for the usual profile of apple-takers. And I just know the neighbourhood and the kids and my garden would be very hard to get into, especially for small kids, has never been "visited" before and there were no signs of entry. So - is there an animal that takes apples? Foxes? There are foxes in the neighbourhood. I believe foxes are omnivorous and the height of the apples left would fit the fox theory. Any other ideas? Has anybody else had this experience? Thanks for any information/suggestions. Hector. Around here, deer are the culprits. Look for droppings and hoof prints. I can't imagine that 4 year old apple trees are very large and have many apples... those are mere saplings. One would certainly know whether there were deer about, if there are there'd be no need for this post... in fact were there deer not only would there be no apples, there'd be no trees, they'd have long ago eaten them. If not the neighbor's kids perhaps the neighbor picked some... couldn't take more than a couple minutes to harvest a couple four year old trees... I have 2 seven year old apple trees, they're barely 1 1/2 caliper and barely 8' tall. |
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