[si-mate]

We've just moved into a new house and we've got 3 young apple trees at the bottom of the garden. - 2 cox's orange pippins and 1 bramley. The bramley had some fruit on it which I've today picked as I wanted to spray the nettles in that part of the garden.
Once I'd picked the apples I looked on the label and it said that the fruit ripens in October.

I've never had much to do with picking apples apart from a bit of passing scrumping so I'm not sure whether they were ready or not.

Will they be ok and how do I know if they are ripe?

[owein]

Taste them
if they are not ready cook with them or make jelly

[Aunt Sally]

If an apple  is ready to pick it will separate reasonably easily from the tree when lifted gently skywards (and given a sharp twist and yank   )

[Ice]

And the pips will be brown.

[Aunt Sally]

And cox pips rattle when ripe.


They do :!:

[si-mate]

Well its a bit late for the yank test so I suppose I'll have to take a bite  

[compostqueen]

we used to ripen ours in the sock drawer. Don't know if it worked