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

"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?


Make scrumpy :-) Or just press them for juice.

Steve

Steve Harris writes
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?

Undamaged ripe windfalls and the undamaged bits of ripe ones can be used
as normal.

If they're not yet ripe, then you can try juicing them, or chopping them
up and adding to curies and rich stews. You can probably also use them
in chutney.

If they're very unripe, then I haven't yet found a use, and they might
as well go on the heap.
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Kay

In message , K
writes
Steve Harris writes
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?

Undamaged ripe windfalls and the undamaged bits of ripe ones can be
used as normal.


My (probably) Discovery tree is shedding just at the right rate for me
to cut out the insecty bits and eat a couple a day. Given what's left on
the tree I might have to up that to around 10 a day before the end of
August. Might have a go at making apple sauce.

Bit disappointed on the amount of damage and this is putting me off
dropping some round to the neigbours lest they think I'm trying to do
them in. I'm sure eating apples off trees when I was a kid didn't have
this kind of problem - or maybe I just ate it anyway.

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Mike Buckley
RD350LC2
CB72

On Aug 17, 8:14*pm, "mike. buckley" wrote:

Bit disappointed on the amount of damage and this is putting me off
dropping some round to the neigbours lest they think I'm trying to do
them in. I'm sure eating apples off trees when I was a kid didn't have
this kind of problem - or maybe I just ate it anyway.

It was the meat in the apples that made us big strong boys!

"moghouse" wrote in message
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On Aug 17, 8:14 pm, "mike. buckley" wrote:

Bit disappointed on the amount of damage and this is putting me off
dropping some round to the neigbours lest they think I'm trying to do
them in. I'm sure eating apples off trees when I was a kid didn't have
this kind of problem - or maybe I just ate it anyway.

It was the meat in the apples that made us big strong boys!

What's worse than finding a grub in an apple?
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Finding half a grub in an apple.

Steve

On Aug 17, 9:19*pm, "shazzbat"
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It was the meat in the apples that made us big strong boys!

What's worse than finding a grub in an apple?
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Finding half a grub in an apple.

This aspect of the thread has reminded me of our local butcher just
after the war, when rationing was still in force. He used to tell the
housewives about how one of his witty customers had told him that
there was more meat in a pound of windfalls than there was in a pound
his sausages. My mother could not understand that I thought the funny
bit was, that having told the story, the butcher always added "Mind
you, it ain't true, of course".

"shazzbat" wrote in message
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"moghouse" wrote in message
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On Aug 17, 8:14 pm, "mike. buckley" wrote:

Bit disappointed on the amount of damage and this is putting me off
dropping some round to the neigbours lest they think I'm trying to do
them in. I'm sure eating apples off trees when I was a kid didn't have
this kind of problem - or maybe I just ate it anyway.

It was the meat in the apples that made us big strong boys!

What's worse than finding a grub in an apple?

Not finding one!

mike. buckley writes
In message , K

Undamaged ripe windfalls and the undamaged bits of ripe ones can be
used as normal.


My (probably) Discovery tree is shedding just at the right rate for me
to cut out the insecty bits and eat a couple a day. Given what's left
on the tree I might have to up that to around 10 a day before the end
of August. Might have a go at making apple sauce.

If you've got a blender or smoothie maker, you could try juicing them.

Bit disappointed on the amount of damage and this is putting me off
dropping some round to the neigbours lest they think I'm trying to do
them in. I'm sure eating apples off trees when I was a kid didn't have
this kind of problem - or maybe I just ate it anyway.

I get the feeling that the tree sheds the damaged ones first. There are
a far higher proportion of bird-pecked apples amongst my windfalls than
amongst the ones I pick from the tree.
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Kay

In article ,
(K) wrote:

If they're not yet ripe, then you can try juicing them, or chopping
them up and adding to curies and rich stews. You can probably also use
them in chutney.

May give that a go! Thanks :-)

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

"Steve Harris" wrote in message
...
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

Chutneys.. apple pies, apple crumble, apple sauce..

"Anne Welsh Jackson" wrote in message
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"wafflycat" wrote:
"Steve Harris" wrote:

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!

Chutneys.. apple pies, apple crumble, apple sauce..

I made five gallons of apple wine, in 1990. Delicious, it was, and
I'm still finding the odd bottle of it here and there in the attic...

Is that because it made you so drunk you couldn't remember making it in the
first place?(:-)

Alan


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AnneJ

In article ,
Anne Welsh Jackson wrote:

I made five gallons of apple wine, in 1990. Delicious, it was, and
I'm still finding the odd bottle of it here and there in the attic...

I made a gallon of peapod wine round about 1963. Disgusting it was,
so I kept one bottle to see what aging would do and poured the rest
away. Well, I was living with my mother then, who died many years
later; my brother found the bottle when clearing up and ceremoniously
presented it to me. It is now residing in my workshop, as a present
for any grandchildren.

Anything like apple wine would have a different fate ....


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

"Steve Harris" wrote in message
...
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.

Spider

On Mon, 17 Aug 2009 20:59:07 +0100, Spider wrote:

You could also chop some up, add a little sugar and put it for hungry
butterflies.

And wasps. B-) Then the fruit starts to ferment and you have drunk
wasps, now they are rather unpredictable...

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Cheers
Dave.