I can open my window and take photos but the apples are just out of my reach for picking. I'll need the ladder! This is one of the badly overgrown apple trees on the house we bought a couple of years ago that hadn't seen a pruning in many years. We've had a gardener out to prune it over the past 2 winters and taken care of some pruning outselves, put in fruit spikes, and kept it watered. I found out last year the variety is called red Gravensteen. Kind of like a McIntosh but sweeter. Good for eating and apple crisp. My horses love them too but they only get the ones that fall on the ground. Red Gravensteen apple tree ( photo / image / picture from whistler's Garden ) Red gravensteen apples ( photo / image / picture from whistler's Garden ) Apple looks good enough to eat ( photo / image / picture from whistler's Garden ) More red gravensteen apples ( photo / image / picture from whistler's Garden )
I love when fruit is ready for picking. My apples are still quite small but it won't be long before I'm making apple sauces and tarts with them. :-D
I got an apple picker for Christmas last year. I'd put it on a long pole and pick from the window! YUM!
Mmmm.....apples. I live in an apple-growing country-side. When fall arrives, there is nothing like going to an apple orchard and picking your own apples. Good eating ones and great ones for home-made apples crisps and pies. Mmmm, mmmm, good!
Wow, how beautiful, it gets too hot for them here, but I do have tangerines, 54 this year. Our tree is still young.
After I posted this I did make apple cinnamon muffins using one of the Gravensteens. Turned out very nice. Netty, I told my husband about your apple picker and he wants to get one. Currently our method of picking apples is him putting up a step ladder, getting on to the fork of the tree, and climbing up like a monkey. And all the good apples are out of his reach anyway. Or else its grabbing a branch and giving it a good shake, which unfortunately results in more apples than I need and bruised ones at that when they hit the ground.If you read this again, please tell where you bought it. I did a google search for apple picker. It gave me pages of apple picking jobs, a site on how to make your own apple picker (just might end up doing that!), and a link to an equestrian site with an apple picker. I looked at that and their version of an apple picker is what I already own and refer to as a manure pitchfork. And Amazon.com has a link where they can be bought online. I'm hoping to find a real store that I can go into and buy. So is my husband. I think at 51 years old he doesn't want to do any more tree climbing.
Whistler ~ my apple picker came from Lee Valley Tools. http://www.leevalley.com/garden/page.aspx?c=1&p=10165&cat=2,2120,33277&ap=1
Perfect! We are preferred customers at Lee Valley Tools and are going to get one. Thanks for the help Nettty!
