Yankee Ingenuity
Here's the ingenious fruit picker my uphill neighbor taught me to make. He gave me the bamboo pole - it's about 15 feet long - and I supplied the soda bottle. I have reinforced this one with duct tape because the first one I made fell apart quickly through pulling hard on all those recalcitrant apples.
All you do is position the square opening in the picker around an apple, maneuver the notch in the bottle bottom (between the two white tapes) around the stem of the fruit, and pull! The fruit drops with a little plop! into the neck of the bottle.
Don't I have clever neighbors? All my friends and family who've gotten applesauce think so!
Labels: picker
posted by Zoomie at
5:03 AM
7 Comments:
Wow! That's super-clever. Nice job!
It's fantastic!
I guess the hard part is keeping the bottle attached to the pole.
But. Cool.
That's so cool! I'm going to try it for my fig trees next year.
Kitt, I was amazed by the neighbor's inventiveness.
Cookiecrumb, more duct tape is the answer. Of course, more duct tape is the answer to most problems, isn't it?
Vicki, I've found another neighbor with fruit - this one has wonderful sweet black mission figs - so I might approach them with my picker soon!
That is really cool! I can't imagine growning a tree on my deck, but I have a friend in Sonoma with a tall tree laden with apples...
Anna, okay, let's go next year and help your friend harvest!
That sounds like a plan if she's up for it!
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