all of us had fun collecting and we were glad that at the time out there it wasn't raining. the weather has been very flaky and i would not have chosen to do the work today, but we had to. the reason being, that we do not own a car and second, the cider mill of the nearby farmer is pressing on thursdays. i reserved a mobility car for the afternoon and we got to work.
dressed up in rain gear and warm hats we went out to the orchard.
these are boskoop, a tart kind. although it was really time for them to be harvested, and yes they were sweeter as i expected.
the other kind of apples are "suurgrauech" i could not find an english name for them... anyway it's an old variety and the apples would have been fine to store. but we decided because the tree didn't produce a lot this year, we would put them in the same batch as the boskoop and make cider.
:: i know this post should have been worked on some more. the plan was to go to the cider mill today an watch our apples being processed!
instead we went for a hike, up to the castle kyburg, made a camp fire and grilled sausages for lunch!
o well, i leave you with the unfinished post. we enjoyed the wonderful sunny autumn day. my friend is still sitting in the sun knitting...
1 comment:
I wish I had thought of pressing the apples from my tree this past fall. The tree was buried under a bush 4 years ago. Since I cleared the area out around it, it's grown well every year but I didn't expect it to produce apples but it did! Beautiful green juicy apples but they appeared to have worm holes in them so we couldn't eat many of them.
I fertilized the free well in the fall and will have it sprayed in the spring and hope for a bountiful harvest in the fall. If so I'll definitely press some of them.
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