Our Apple Tree Today

[Pilot]

Ours are sweet apples Betty, they are called Jonathan's (Spelling) we usually juice them and have fresh apple juice for breakfast for a month or two, its pink in colour and very nice cold straight from the fridge.

[Ugly Betty]

Thank you, Betty.

Thats sound advice cheers

You're very welcome, Marrasis. One note of caution. You might want to check
with a local nursery or garden shop about the timing to apply a fungicide. Your
hardiness zone isn't quite the same as ours. It might be better after the leaves
fall or just prior to them coming into bud in Spring.

Good luck. I hope you can cure it.

Ours are sweet apples Betty, they are called Jonathan's (Spelling) we usually juice them and have fresh apple juice for breakfast for a month or two, its pink in colour and very nice cold straight from the fridge.

Pilot, oh those are lovely apples. I've used them for baked apples before with a
bit of cinnamon and a dab of butter. They're nice and sweet so don't need any
added sugar. Not tried them for juice. Bet they're wonderful.

[Globalmyths]

Jonathan's are a very popular variety in New Zealand. as are Cox Orange pippen and the delicious varieties and Granny Smith for cooking. Any chance I can sit under your tree and wait to test Newton's law of gravity.

[Pilot]

I know its not time yet, but here is a shot of the west side showing the apples are starting to ripen up.

[Ugly Betty]

Wow, it's looking great, Pilot. My next door neighbotrs tree is FULL of
apples and just about ripe now. I think I'll ask him for a few so I can
make a nice pie.

Do you climb up and pick them when they ripen or do you wait for them
to fall?

[Pilot]

Bit of both Betty, next time we get a good strong wind lots will come down, we just gather them up in the morning, wash them, chop them up and juice them.

[Ugly Betty]

Ok, Pilot, thanks. Sounds simple enough.

I trust with your weather thereabouts you won't have
to wait long for a good bit of wind.

[Globalmyths]

If you want wind falls that is apples that fall during the wind. Tie some cans of baked beans to the lower branches.
OK I am being serious now. Do you have problems with the Codlin moth.

[Pilot]

Not Codlin Moth, but had trouble in the past with Global Myth.

[Pilot]

Click on picture for slide show.

[memor]

What does tying tins of beans to trees help with windfalls ??

Is this some religous thing ?

Does it work and do the Spiritulaist Society know about it.

Glob you not run round tree naked in the middle of the night do you ?

Frightening !!!

[brian c]

Brilliant slideshow Pontius. =D>

[Pilot]

I cant get the one Curly uses to work properly, so i cant add music at the moment, still experimenting.

[Ugly Betty]

Oh, very good Pilot. =D> Keep at it. Maybe you can make it give us
apple juice.

[Pilot]

Here it is, what you have all waited for a month to see yes folks, its the 7th again. We took a carrier bag full of apples off yesterday and gave them to a neighbour.

[Scrappy]

WOOHOO Apples in dem trees.
Excellent pilot, I loved the slide show.. =D>

[sherri]

Excellent shots, pilot.
I won't show you our disgusting excuse for an apple tree. It has always done poorly and I am not sure why, because our lemon tree and orange trees are going great guns. Apple trees are supposed to thrive here too, but they sure don't in our yard!

I was just thinking that photos from much the same sopt over time would build up an historical record. Just imagine if a few people did that over years and years-you would see all the changes. Sometimes we never really notice small changes-they just accumulate till one day you see an old photo and think-I had forgotten such and such a thing looked like that, ever. When did it change?

[Pilot]

sherri, I take the photo's on the 7th of each month from the same spot and I intend to print them out and frame them as a twelve month record of 2007, only three more to go, I was very lucky this year as the 7th February was one of only a handful of days we had snow.

[Bushmermaid]

It is looking great Pilot and being taken on the 7th of each month makes fora great pictorial diary of an apple tree.
Well done.


Marrasis, if you are still having trouble with black spot etc, at pruning time prune it really hard then spray with lime sulpher. When spraying, also spray the ground around the tree as the fungal spores on the ground also need to be gotten rid of.
Try the above before chopping it down. It would be such a shame for it to go.

[Globalmyths]

As I read all the responses I saw sherri's name. And I thought what an earth is she doing here. Doesn't she know that old saying. "An apple a day keeps the doctor not the teacher away. Sorry Sherri I was getting mixed up with taking an apple to school for the teacher. just kidding.