Post Harvest Clean-Up

Henry David Thoreau wrote inward his majority Wild Apples a elementary yet bold sentence: "All apples are proficient inward November."  In the by calendar week I accept had many opportunities to examination this assertion.  We are inward the midst of the post-harvest clean-up of the orchard, raking apples, cutting suckers in addition to mowing weeds in addition to high grasses.  This tidying of the orchard has allowed me to glean those hidden apples of all varieties in addition to afterwards a dandy bargain of sampling I would accept to tell I respectfully disagree amongst Mr. Thoreau.  Perhaps Thoreau was non graced amongst the pleasance of biting into a McIntosh that has defied the laws of gravity since mid-September.  Some varieties, those picked entirely a few weeks prior, compass to the pallet a sensation really similiar to the flavor in addition to texture they had the hateful solar daytime I picked them.  Others appear entirely to worsen amongst age, becoming soft, mealy in addition to inward to a greater extent than or less cases overly sweet.  There are those withal that when bitten into accept a sense of savour that seems entirely possible this fourth dimension of year.  For this apple, I must wholeheartedly concur amongst Thoreau when he says the Nov air "is the sauce it is to live on eaten with.' 

The days are colder, merely soundless of an enjoyable temperature to operate in.  The cardinal I accept establish is to clothes inward layers, which tin live on peeled off every bit the torso in addition to the hateful solar daytime laid out to warm.  Many of the apple tree trees accept begun to plough inward color, nearly to diverse shades of yellowish in addition to gold, a few to orangish or fifty-fifty a deep crimson. 
Putting the orchard to bed is difficult merely satisfying work.  In to a greater extent than or less ways raking the apples out from nether the trees feels much to a greater extent than physically strenuous than picking the fruit.  The project is messy amongst apples beingness crushed nether human foot in addition to the sent of fermenting fruit inward the nostrils.  As a crew nosotros tardily brand our agency upwards in addition to downward each row.  Some varieties acquire out picayune operate to live on done, amongst entirely an apple tree hither or in that place to live on found, others accept yellowish in addition to ruby-red carpets nether them.  This is a business office of the harvest flavour I accept never been a business office of before, merely I am greatful to acquire what goes into preparing the orchard for winter.  It is a proficient reminder that the operate does non destination when the apples are off the trees. 

Raked apples

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