Today has been a day of apples. Apples on the ground all wet with dew, apples nestling together in a barrow, apples on the Heap, and apples in storage. It was a very hot day to be apple harvesting, but I had to get the crop off the ground before the slugs and birds had a feast.
It took me a while to work out where to put them all. The coolest, darkest place was the floor of the shack. I spread paper over the shady side and carefully arranged the apples so they weren't touching. I worked at an apple farm once, so I know what to avoid when storing apples. None without stalks, none with holes, none with bruises. I was a bit lax with the stalks rule, as I hope to be quite soon turning most of them into cider anyway.
Allotment Pixie
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