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These should last until mid-Feb (these and the other two boxes.

What variety are they Eric?

Are they stored in the dark?  I have never had such a bumper crop of apples this year, more than I or my neighbours could eat but was unsure of whether they would store of not, so they landed up on the compost heap!  Do you pick them slightly unripe?

- drooling - ours are supposed to improve with keeping (Sunset), but they quickly go soft.  But the Bramleys are fine - they'll be in the cellar till May. = Tim

These are a Cox type (wich is as far as the expert would go in identifying them). They are picked slightly under ripe and stored in a frost free shed in the dark in apple boxes lined with paper. Our Sunset apples do not keep either. The Bramleys are the ones just in picture to the right. they keep for a very long time. Rev Wilkes is as good at keeping too. Most of our otherapples are non keepers, We use the windfalls and wormed and damaged as apple juice, so not a lot of waste.

Apples are ok pureed and frozen if you haven't anywhere to store them.I might make an apple pie tomorrow with some now that i have reminded myself.