Do you remember what kind of apples yours were, Lynn? I feel kind of sad that you couldn't get a cutting of the tree to graft before it came down.

We harvested our apples yesterday, we had a nice crop. One full box of windfall and bird-bitten apples is now applesauce. We have four "apple" boxes (got some empties from the grocery store) full of the rest. I plan to dry some in the dehydrator I borrowed from melcro (again) and the rest will get canned up ready for pies and crisps like before. Unless some other preservation method inspires me.

They're a bit buggy, I'm in the midst of researching organic pest control options for next year. I lost a lot of apples to the compost pile because of the bugs. First I need to find out exactly which bugs I've got then devise a non-toxic plan of campaign.

I did have about 55 apples that looked completely bug-free, those went to DD's kindergarten for the kiddies.

Anhata
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