A Week At War With Apples
And Pears
A WEEK IN PHOTOS
A Week At War With Apples
And Pears
Photo: Penny Grubb
It’s that time of year when the apples won’t stay on the trees — storms, torrential rain, even strolling past one of the trees can bring down a bombardment of solid fruit.
If we can pick them from the tree …
Stone bird surveys a potential harvest. Photo: Penny Grubb
… which we can’t for the ones in the photo; they’re too high; I took the shot from an upstairs window — then we could store them whole. Of course, that only works when the birds, squirrels, or other critters haven’t found them first and taken bites out. They might look like a tempting crop, but by now, few are intact and thus not worth the risk of climbing to the top of an unstable ladder to find the bite marks.
When we manage to be first to get them from the tree, they can go into the apple store.
As an aside, the spell checker is urging me to “fix the capitalisation”; it assumes I mean the Apple store, that well-known purveyor of apps for a multitude of purposes. I don’t mean that at all. I mean an old-fashioned single-function device; a box, whose purpose is to store apples.
Photo: Penny Grubb
We stack the apples, all separated by their cardboard dividers, into crates that stack on top of each other. The store needs airflow. It is not airtight, but it is watertight. It is not entirely bug-proof. The spiders love it. You can see the cobwebs starting to form.
Since the apples will hold out well into next Spring, I assume some neat ecological system whereby the spiders eat the bugs that would otherwise eat the apples.
Photo: Penny Grubb
In relation to keeping up with all the apples that are being blown off trees in the UK at the moment, check out this from Linda Acaster:
As For The Pears
Photo: Penny Grubb
We eat as many as we can. We give them away, but everyone with pear trees has surplus pears at the moment. There are limits to how much pear juice can be made or drunk. They can be dried successfully, but it takes a lot of time.
Photos: Penny Grubb
The Book Fair
The parts of the week that haven’t been taken over by apples and pears have been filled with preparation for the York Book Fair — a joint event between Fantastic Books Publishing and Stairwell Books — to be held during York’s annual Christmas market.
Event poster: reproduced with permission from Fantastic Books Publishing
Leisure activities (such as sleep) have been postponed until after Christmas.
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