Timely and fast gathering apples helps not only to save time for other garden works, but also to preserve harvest of fruits. The resung apples can fall down from trees or crack why the term of their possible storage will be reduced significantly.
It is difficult to accelerate process of gathering apples, using the special equipment. Even in large-scale gardening enterprises the mechanization of cleaning of fruits comes down to installation of the conveyer belt along ranks or delivery of collectors to crown on the elevator. In the conditions of small garden helps to make process of removal of harvest fast timely preparation of all necessary devices: ladders, cotton gloves, plodosbornik, baskets, wooden boxes and packaging material.
Will help to define time of the beginning of gathering apples the fruit cut in half. Summer grades begin to remove when tips of seeds get brown coloring. Autumn grades remove when seeds become light brown half. By this time apples get coloring, characteristic of grade. Winter apples begin to remove when seeds completely become brown.
Harvest, having waited for dry weather as the fruit removed by damp do not suit for storage. Apples collect, clasping fruit with hands and pressing on fruit stem in the place where it fastens to branch. Do it in cotton gloves which will help to keep undamaged protective wax raid on thin skin of fruits. Collected fruits stack in the baskets covered by burlap. First of all remove fruit from the lower branches. After release from apples of this part of krone the step-ladder will help to reach other fruits. The fruit hanging are even higher, remove plodosbornik with bags made of cloth. To accelerate all necessary work, apples touch and stack along with harvesting. The filled baskets carry to the place of sorting, leaving to collectors empty tanks. For bookmark on storage apples sort by the size and stack in wooden boxes. On their bottom fill layer of sawdust or shaving of deciduous breeds, place paper and spread fruit. For bigger safety each apple is wrapped in parchment paper, and layers of fruits separate from each other the pressed cardboard. The top layer of fruit is covered with paper and filled up with sawdust.