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- Harvest and store apples properly
- Only with the right pollination does it have a good apple harvest
- Harvest different apple varieties according to purpose
- The right time and pase aids
- Tips & Tricks
Harvest and store apples properly
If you look after your apple tree with the right cuts and a balanced water and nutrient supply, you can usually harvest enough tasty apples for fresh consumption and storage.
Early article Diseases of the apple tree and their treatmentOnly with the right pollination does it have a good apple harvest
For the expected harvest quantity of an apple tree not only tree size and apple variety are crucial, but also the pollination rate of the apple blossoms on the tree. You can increase these by either planting different apple trees in the same location or by making a second variety of grafting the tree into a self-pollinated apple tree. Last but not least, it also helps with a good apple harvest, when insects necessary for pollination find enough nesting and feeding places in a garden.
Harvest different apple varieties according to purpose
Among the apple trees, there are not only varieties for fresh consumption, but also special cider apples and apples for storage over the winter. While cider apples can easily be shaken from the tree on scattered fruit knowledge and then added to the juicer for further processing, other apples should not get any pressure points. Therefore, you should prefer the rather time-consuming setting up of a ladder for the harvest and detach the ripe apples from the branches with a gentle twisting motion. Setting up the ladder at various points around the treetop can also be used twice if, at the same time as part of the summer cut, you remove the water shoots at the top of the treetop.
The right time and pase aids
Just before the maturity of most apple varieties in August and September, check your ladder for stability and safety. Sometimes it can be worthwhile to use a special apple picker for harvesting from the ground. In this case, the apples are plucked from the tree with a jagged metal ring before they are caught by a fabric bag without pressure points. As a reward for the effort at harvest, the use of the fruits beckons for the following purposes:
Tips & Tricks
The exact time for the harvest of apples can actually only be decided after a taste test. If the apple tree is only partially in full sun, the apples can be harvested according to their degree of ripeness also in temporal distance.