jim_flanegin wrote: > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> jim_flanegin wrote: >> >>> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <jstein@> >>> wrote: >>> >>> >>>> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, gullible fool <fflmod@> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>>> I did not know about this. This I why I stopped eating >>>>> apples. They're too firm and I can't buy ripe ones >>>>> anywhere. They don't ripen at home, eiher, and leaving >>>>> them out for a month in the hopes they will ripen >>>>> attracts fruit flies. Yes, I have actually left them >>>>> out that long. >>>>> >>>>> It sounds like this chemical works too well. >>>>> >>>>> >>>> My sister, who recently moved to Vermont, has some >>>> old apple trees on her property that haven't been >>>> cared for and look pretty miserable. But she >>>> discovered a couple of small, misshapen, but nice >>>> red apples on one of them, picked one, and ate it. >>>> She says it was fantastic, vastly better than any >>>> of the commercial apples she's had in years. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> Yep- There is no comparison at all. Oddly enough I find the >>> > apples > >>> from my tree stay firm and ripen slowly, and they are organic. >>> Perhaps the trees sprayed with pesticides and stuff produce a >>> different kind of apple? >>> >>> Judy, you may want to tell your sister that next year when all >>> > the > >>> little apples come out on the tree to thin them out, especially >>> > the > >>> clusters of two, three and four. Thin them down to one apple per >>> branch site, and the apples will grow much larger. >>> >> Which *is* a lot of work and probably fine for someone who has no >> hobbies or other interests. >> > > lol! I think it took me a grand *total* of 45 minutes the three > times I did it...I should've mentioned my tree is about 8 feet wide > and 10 feet high. > > That's about 40 minutes too long for me. :)
Of course my apples are green apples and really only good for making pies. When I get a good crop I give them away to relatives. But they don't give me any pies back, damn! The neighbors across the street have a pear tree that goes to waste. And I have a lemon tree that is very prolific and lemons are too sour for me hence friends and relatives get big bags of them. > I didn't get many apples this year due to > >> the weird spring weather which messed up a lot of crops in the >> > area. > >> Commercial growers use a spray that thins and indeed apples as >> > well as > >> strawberries are one of the most heavily sprayed fruits. Keeping >> > the > >> worms out of them is indeed another challenge. >> >> > > > > > To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
