Speaking as a pick-your-own customer: Please do wait until the trees are a little riper. Rope off the ones that aren't ready if you have some types ripen before others. Most of your customers have no clue at all whether an apple is ripe, or how to pick them, and will pry under-ripe apples off the tree, taking the whole spur with them. If the apples are really ripe, many of them will fall into the hands of the children, and you and they will both be happy.
I've never been to a pyo place with heavy supervision, though, and I think that would diminish the experience for your customers. Ginda Fisher On Sep 14, 2012, at 7:19 AM, Con.Traas wrote: > Hello Hugh, > I would say it is worth the hassle, if the price you get is good. Making sure > the apples are really ripe so they come off easily lessens the damage. > Perhaps waiting until the trees are a little more sturdy would be an option. > In our own case we over-pick about 10 days earlier, and then do the U-pick in > the apples we have left behind. > Con > > > I'm going to reply to this, mainly to see if it works, as I'm new on here. > > I have a question for anyone with a u-pick orchard. Do the kids do a lot > damage to the trees and fruit, making heavy supervision necessary? I just > planted a small high density orchard of about an acre and a half. Would a > small u-pick operation be worth the hassles? Thanks for any input, > Hugh > > > _______________________________________________ > apple-crop mailing list > [email protected] > http://virtualorchard.net/mailman/listinfo/apple-crop
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