Picked the last of the apples today!

[fabindia]

We still had a few half decent apples left on the tree. Most have been pecked by the birds but I managed to salvage about half a dozen. Left the rest for the birds, the blackbirds particularly seem partial to them.

Apple crumble for tea tonight.

I have about 20 or so in storage, so may not be completely the end of last year's apples. Plus a bit of apple chutney left, and of course 50 pints of cider under the stairs.

[lancashire lass]

gosh you have done well I'm actually down to the last ones in store, and of course they are all a bit mealy looking as I've been picking out the best first. With having a rat problem, I raked up all the fallen damaged apples from the garden and took them to the allotment compost heap so the wild birds have not been so lucky this year.

[Mo]

We had a bumper crop. There are still some on the Granny Smith that I've not bothered to set up the high step-ladder for. People came from Freecycle to pick (at own risk), I've been giving them away at dance club, and there are still 3 large boxes of eater (3 types), a couple of wrinkled Bramleys, and a box of granny Smith which I use as cookers since they are not the same as the imported eaters but they keep better than Bramleys. Some in the freezer too, I try to cook 2 pies, 1 to eat, 1 for summer.
And the birds get some too - under the trees, in a pile near the hedge where I can see the fieldfares from the window, and a sack of too scruffy or too small that I'm keeping in our closed porch to give them if it snows.

[fishpond]

I've still got about 40 Bramleys left.
On a different note are we going to get any frosts as we have only had about 4 or 5 since well before Xmas?
A little concerned that we will get some severe late frosts.

[Mo]

Most of those Granny Smiths have fallen off now - Must go and see if they're worth picking up tomorrow.