I’ve peeled and cooked a few treesworth of apples in my time (and given away loads of course). Fortunately for me, the tree decided to take a year off this year. It’s of little consequence apple-wise – the freezer is still pretty well stocked with vintage crops lol. My aunt used to pick them whilst still perfect, wrap them in newspaper and keep them under the bed in packing materials from the greengrocer. That smell still means Christmas to me. How would Penfold react to that?
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Give your excess to people you know need it…a family with lots of kids, pensioners without much money…even e youth centre or Senior Citizens group…they often do cookery courses at youth centres…and old ladies love to make jam and pickles. They would always be grateful for the ingredients.

Dry the apples…you can get air food dryers really cheaply at large stores…and then all through winter you can just reconstitute them and they’ll make great pies.muesli, fruit and nut mix…even apple sauce for the pork at Chrissie.’
You can dry tomatoes, apricots..make your oen prunes by drying plums….yummy…and no chemicals like the dried fruit you buy in shops.

And make that fella of yours help you peel them!
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NO Beastie…if he gets back tell him I waited and waited…and went to bed lonely and sad

***sigh***

I have to laugh because when the tomatoes, beans and other vegetables start picking then it is a daily thing to go out there and pick vegetables. You get behind on all the picking if you have too much growing.
We had tons of sweet corn and a lot of it just got too old and big and we couldn’t eat it because even though we did planting at different times we had too much to eat and pick.
It gets overwhelming. Our basement is filled with tomatoes in trays. I would say there were 18 trays of tomatoes.
Next I will be digging sweet potatoes.
A lot of times I push myself to get things done even though I am really tired already.
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I cheat.

An example – we plant our green beans one row at a time, with 10-15 day gaps in between laying out rows. Of course, I live in northern Florida, on the "Redneck Riviera," so this method might not be available to other folks with shorter warm seasons.

In our little tiny raised garden, once things get going, this approach translates to about a three-person portion every three or four days for a couple or three months.

I just pick ‘em off the little bush, wash ‘em, cut the ends off, and steam ‘em. I don’t harvest and store, just pick as needed.

No idea how to handle a tree other than all at once, though.
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I’m off to spend £1.50 on 4 apples down at the local shop…

Byeeee…
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