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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.

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.

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

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. :-*

Hey Weed

That's what I did today.

Lazy little blighters - didn' move at all.

Yum for crab apple jelly!  :P

Quote from: Trenchboy on July 03, 2005, 21:05:46
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

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

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?

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. 

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