Here are a few additions to our list of tools and equipment, ha. Can you guess them?
These are berry gathering tools. You just hold it by the handle and run it through the berry vines/bushes and it gently pulls off the fruit. With the prolific nature of our dewberry vines here at the farm, I felt like we needed a couple so we can gather dewberries this Spring.
Yes 2nd Man, you will be out there with me gathering dewberries!
These are the other items we got.
Do you know what they are?
They are orchard gathering tools for getting pears, apples, peaches, etc down off of the higher branches! You put a rod/pole in one end (it comes with a clamp to screw it down) so you can make it as long as you need according to your tree height. Then you put the open end around the fruit and just use it to pull them off (the pointed ends help maneuver through he leaves and smaller branches) and then the fruit can roll into the other end so it doesn't fall out. They came in a set of four so I figured if we break one, we'll have a backup.
I used one of the crates I found downstairs back at the apartment in a "trash to treasure" find, put them in there and stored them away in the mower shed. They are ready for this Spring now that we are out here and whatever nature wants to bring us.
You got some really useful fruit picking tools. The berry ones will sure make dewberry picking quicker instead of one by one. And the little fruit basket things will be much safer than climbing ladders to get those fruits on top.
ReplyDeleteAnd of course one of your trash-to-treasure finds came in handy to store them in!
We had a metal one to pick oranges with. Since cancer and greening disease too our citrus trees now I don't need one now. I do have a lemon tree that is doing well. The cold that is supposed to come to Florida next week I will try to cover the lemon tree. We lost about 6 citrus trees of different fruits a few years ago. My kids had groves and had to pull out about 3500 or more citrus trees and burn them. It takes 7 or 8 years to get a new grove to producing age. They turned the groves into sod fields and a nursery. If anyone is near Brandon, Florida and needs sod or plants I can tell you a good honest place to buy. Just a free plug. Delete if you want to.
ReplyDeleteI have one of the orchard fruit grabbers, and it works well. I use in on the pear trees but don't have to worry about harvesting apples because the squirrels eat every one .
ReplyDeleteThey should really come in handy and will make it much easier for the both of you to do the pick'n. Wishing you both a plentiful bounty of fruit.
ReplyDeleteHave a great day.
Blessing 2 U both