wtf can we do with hundreds of rotting apples

[weirdorjustme]

Our new house has two mature apples trees that has produced literally hundreds of apples, how are we supposed to get rid of them? They’re no good as now rotten

Carefully dispose of them in a compost heap.

Nothing else you can do now unfortunately.

A rat fest?
If your garden is not massive find a LA garden recycle and dump them off site

Look forward to the autumn!

Just rake them up and compost. Please make sure no horses or other livestock can get to them.

Garden waste bin

Leave them for the blackbirds. They'll be gone by spring.

You’d need Hitchcockian levels of blackbirds to deal with the apples from two trees!

If you know any farmers ask them if they have any use for them

Start throwing them in your bin but don't put too many in or it will be too heavy too move/empty. I'm assuming the blackbirds aren't eating them. Mine are very fussy and only like the Asda gala apples 🙄

Next year start thinning them out when very small on the tree. I did this a couple of times a year and it was a lot easier to deal with the harvest.

Any pig keepers nearby?

Not true. I have two massive apple trees in my garden. Never pick them. Always gone by spring.

I have 7 apple trees in my garden. I rake and compost for the first month and then leave the rest for the birds. There must have been over a thousand apples at the beginning of January and now there are none. With the cold weather the blackbirds, fieldfares and redwings have a feast. Most of the apples were gone within a week during the cold/snow spell a few weeks ago.

The squirrels and crows will also help dispose of the apples for you.

Get a pig. BIL has an orchard and he feeds all the apples to his pigs!

I have 2 apple trees and leave them for the birds, theyre always gone

This is just one of the trees 😫 also any apple tree advice for looking after them, how to prune etc would be amazing !

Are they cooking apples? Not even a slug would touch my cookers but all my eaters went as the birds, squirrels and bugs ate those (eventually).

Rake them up under the tree and let them decompose on their own. All apple trees end up with dropped apples and they are usually all gone by spring.

Yes the one in the picture are cooking apples, the other tree are the eating ones and although there is alot of them there is definitely more from the cooking apple tree, it is bigger though

They will enrich your flower beds. Or put them in a composter.

Too late now but we offer them on FB and people come and collect in the autumn.

But like the pig idea.

I have raked mine up as best I could and luckily I have an unused paddock I can tip them into. Otherwise it would be a bucketful at a time in the green waste bin (they dospecify not too much fallen fruit at once) They are too rotten now for the blackbirds to. bother with - and as we live next door to a garden with even more apple trees than us, the blackbirds, while both numerous and willing, just couldn't get through them all while they were edible.

I don't like to leave them under the tree at this point as I've read it makes the soil sour and perpetuates disease.

It doesn't unless the tree is already diseased. That's how forests work, the dropped fruit if not eaten is reused by the tree for food as it decomposes and it feeds a plethora of insects and grubs and fungi which all go to feed the tree.

We have cider, cooking and eating apple trees and back onto an orchard so there are thousands of apples. We find the years we don't pick them up they are always completely gone by the end of March (and now we leave them as there's a whole range of animals and birds that need the food in the coldest months). Please leave yours too