Member
I understand your situation, but it seems such a shame to waist so much usable fruit or to deliberately prevent fruitful trees from bearing. Here is an idea which may work, there may be a community group or church in your area willing to take on the project, as a group, to harvest the apples and donate them to the local food bank or some similar organization. This way someone else is picking and hauling away truckloads of fruit and not you. Speaking as a pastor, this sounds like a good benevolence project for a church youth group. It's something to think about. They could even sale the fruit to a processor as a fund raiser if there is a fruit processor in your area. God bless.
Aug 9, 2011
Stacy JettMember
In the coming years, i'd be kicking myself if I kept a fruit tree from potential food. A good question could have been: "How can I make the fruit taste better on my very productive Apple tree?" I would never ever consider killing or stopping something that was willing to bear fruit- ask any starving person or animal what they'd do. And just think!! After you picked up all that fruit- you wouldn't have to go to the gym!! yeyy! :~}