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Catshead or Pigs snout

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Palustris:
A very old kind of cooking apple. They can get as heavy as a pound each. Only picked the ones I could reach without a ladder.

trishs:
They are an unusual shape! They look good :)   Never heard those names before, or seen them available for sale. 

We bought a juicer this year so as not to waste any fallen/damaged  apples.  We probably should be picking a couple of our trees about now and getting undamaged fruit into store.

ideasguy:
How do you store them Eric?

Palustris:
We store them in apple boxes from the Supermarket, in the Summerhouse which is frost proof. Also they are baked and frozen, or puréed and frozen.

Palustris:
Today we picked over 100 pounds (50 kilos approx) of Crown Gold. They need sorting as some are definitely wormed. They will be either juiced or puréed (sans worm) and frozen. The good ones will keep until well after December end.
Still got the Ashmeads to pick and that tree is well laden. Hopefully this year they will not have Bitter pit in them which rendered the crop useless 2 years ago. I put Calcium carbonate all round the roots to get rid of this Calcium deficiency problem.
Then that just leaves the 12 or so Court Pendu Plat to pick. Sad crop on that.

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