We picked the pears on Friday. It was a week early, but everything seems to be early this year. Soon it will be time to bring in the apples. We are already using the drops for apple sauce and pie: They are very nearly ripe. They are also very wormy. Now, if you are one of those organic fruit eaters, you probably don't mind a few worms. That is the price you pay, right? But, at The Homestead, we want our fruit worm free, and have sprayed a lot of malthion to get it. What are we doing wrong? I sprayed every two weeks for the whole fruiting season, and most of these are as wormy as ever. Valerie has been using the apples in the kitchen, but it is a lot more work to clean the fruit when it is in this condition. She says that only about 2/3 of each apple can be used. At the professional orchards, I know they press the drops to make cider. And, I know they don't clean the apples before they go in the press, so the cider must contain worm guts. Maybe worms aren't so bad after all. We could save ourselves a lot of time by eating them with the apples.
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