🍎🍏🍎🍏Apples🍎🍏🍎🍏

 

I picked this many apples off of my backyard Jonathan Apple tree. Yummy. That is the equivalent of 13 five-gallon buckets. And there's still more on the tree! Probably four or so buckets? I'm not sure, but I think I'll leave them there for a while. 

Mike and I have picked for two days. We only have a half a garage full. Ha. Nice variety, but too many that are wormy ( mine are NOT wormy!). 

We are getting closer. We need some more golden delicious and red delicious and some more of a tart variety, though we do have many gallons of frozen more tart ones from the early windfalls I picked up and juiced...and from the Heaton's tree that Mike picked. That will be added to our Mix as well 

So many apples. But not everywhere. Some areas of New Harmony did NOT get fruit this year, sadly.

The OTHER half of the garage. More picking tomorrow!

Wednesday update: this many from Sam's tree.  JUST Sam's!! About 14 1/2  buckets full. I sprayed his tree every time I sprayed mine. He said it was his best crop ever. I'm so glad they came out and picked apples with us. We could have never done it on our own. His wife climbed a very tall ladder to the garage roof and picked; Sam climbed the tree itself. Like a monkey.  It's big, old and has some nasty dead branches and twigs, one of which ripped a hole in my shirt!