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High apples/pears on cycle path
chrisvaldez
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in Gardening
Went on a nice long walk yesterday and found two trees near my house that are bearing the most massive apples/pears...handy as I eat both like they're going out of fashion. Only problem is they're 20 ft high plus!
Not gonna climb the trees as both of them are next to a river which would make me look rather silly if I fell in....anyone got any ideas for improvised apple/pear picking devices? Saw someone once with a giant long clawlike device on a broom handle but I wouldn't know where to start looking for one of them!
Not gonna climb the trees as both of them are next to a river which would make me look rather silly if I fell in....anyone got any ideas for improvised apple/pear picking devices? Saw someone once with a giant long clawlike device on a broom handle but I wouldn't know where to start looking for one of them!
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Putting these winter preps here so I don't forget!
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Insulate front door
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Find wrist warmers & the wool socks!
Wash heated throws
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Buy vest tops to go under clothes and PJs
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You need a long pole (possibly a tree lopper) and an empty 2 litre plastic lemonade bottle (maybe a cider bottle is more appropriate.
Cut the bottom off the bottle then cat a V shape on one side (not too big, maybe 2cm wide and 3 cm long.
Attach the bottle to one end of the pole with duck tape (the "sawn off" end needs to be beyond the end of the pole.
Push the bottle against the fruit with the V catching the stalk. It should then fall into the bottle for you.
Alternatively you could ride along the cycle route on a penny farthing!0 -
If you can get a sheet under the tree? Get two folks to hold the sheet and then shake the tree.
or swing a rope with floats (bottles with the lid on) round the tree and shake the apples into the water and then pull the rope to the land?If you've have not made a mistake, you've made nothing0 -
i remember as a kid using a piece of guttering to reach over gardens and letting the apples slide down it.0
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heretohelp wrote: »i remember as a kid using a piece of guttering to reach over gardens and letting the apples slide down it.
Scrumping eh
When an eel bites your bum, that's a Moray0 -
But clever scrumping, a bit like a Mythbusters scrumpingScrumping eh
I was, funnily enough, wondering the other day as I harvested an apple tree, if the kids of today could be bothered to scrump, I think you'd be paying most of them to eat an apple, not the other way round.
Mind you, most people let their garden fruit crop rot anyway these days and it's much less valued than it used to be.
When I was a kid etc
Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.0
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