Topic: Diddy little apples

[Trenchboy]

The lotment next to mine is well wild. But it has a apple tree/bush with the cutest litlle green and red apples on it now.

It may be a crab apple, but I know zilch about apples, and onle remember the term "crab apple" from the fifties when I was a lil boy.

What can be done with these lil charmers?

They are about the size of a golf ball or smaller, and well solid. No obvious diseases present.

[Twospot Ladybird]

Hi Trenchboy,

Just looked at my book and if it's Crab Apples, they won't be ready to harvest until September/October. Earliest Apple harvests, according to my book, are harvested early August. If and when your Apples are ready to pick, they should just come off  with a gentle lift and twist.

[beejay]

So if you leave those diddy little apples they may well grow into delicious big apples.

[weed]

Methinks you were looking for a use for them?  Everybody thinks of crab apple jelly, but it is SO FIDDLY to make - you have to strain it all and stuff, I think.  Crab apple wine is extremely potent so watch out.  Why not just look at them.  Decide they're ornamental. Much less effort. :-*

[Trenchboy]

Hey Weed

That's what I did today.

Lazy little blighters - didn' move at all.

[Mrs Ava]

Yum for crab apple jelly!  :P

[weed]

Hey Weed

That's what I did today.

Lazy little blighters - didn' move at all.

Actually I'm wrong - you don't have to strain it.  So maybe it's worth doing.  Or getting someone else to do it for you. :D

[pumpkin]

how about apple puree  i have recipe for it its delicious  use as desert or with pork and it can be frozen ;)

[Trenchboy]

Ok folks.

Me being a u/s bloke in the kitchen, let's have those recipes...

And do broad beans have to hang down before you pick them?

[weed]

Is this crab apple or ordinary apple we're talking here?  Or don't you know yet.  Bet you're not really u/s in kitchen. 

[Trenchboy]

Don't know the apple type.
Will see if 18 year old son can put pic on line - but won't hold the breath...