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
to the Core: What pick-your-own apple
orchards tell us about the American economy.
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 think the author was just trying to be a little
satirical to get published. I can see how he
would not recognize the value of dwarf trees
that have been engineered as a majority of the
public doesn't even understand the necessity of
budding/grafting to get a viable tree. But to not
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
Geee I'm so glad he visited us to pick from the veal calves of the
fruit world. Sounds like he has the same mindset as several have said
who have visited us, which goes something like You have the gall to
charge that for bounty to good lord gives you? Unfortunately it is that
1% that tend
Fruit cruelty! How can you purpously stunt your tree's growth like that?
And making the fruit so easy to reach only encourages excess consumption.
If you had any goodness in you at all you would plant the trees on seedling
rootstock so that the big trees would keep the fruit out of reach of the
