When marketed in baskets raspberries are always best sold in 1 lb. shallow punnets with a handle to them. They squash very if they are packed into the deeper punnets that are used for strawberries.
Commercial growers have such containers strapped to the body of the picker so as to leave both hands free for harvesting. This makes it easier, too, for climbing ladders where the trees are tall.
Don't use an ordinary basket for the wicker ribbing easily damages the skin of apples, pears and peaches. If baskets have to be used, they should first of all be lined with felt. A simple container is the galvanized bucket which can be kept clean and can be sterilized with boiling water from time to time.
The sides of such a bucket should be smooth so as to make certain that none of the fruits are damaged. The handle of the bucket should have a large hook fixed to it so that it can be hooked on to the rung of the ladder or on the branch of a tree.
Put the pecked, scabbed or damaged fruit into one box for using immediately, the larger fruits in another box and the medium-sized ones in a third box.
For home use two grades only are required as a rule, i.e. the good and the specked. By the way, when picking, never leave diseased fruit on the tree or this will be a source of trouble later, breeding, as it may, the spores of brown rot. Special pears being grown on cordons or espaliers may be protected by using little muslin bags which are put over the individual fruits and tied to the spurs. Thus the birds cannot peck, the wasps cannot bite, and, as the fruit ripens, it falls into the bag where it is held and comes to no harm.
Commercial growers have such containers strapped to the body of the picker so as to leave both hands free for harvesting. This makes it easier, too, for climbing ladders where the trees are tall.
Don't use an ordinary basket for the wicker ribbing easily damages the skin of apples, pears and peaches. If baskets have to be used, they should first of all be lined with felt. A simple container is the galvanized bucket which can be kept clean and can be sterilized with boiling water from time to time.
The sides of such a bucket should be smooth so as to make certain that none of the fruits are damaged. The handle of the bucket should have a large hook fixed to it so that it can be hooked on to the rung of the ladder or on the branch of a tree.
Put the pecked, scabbed or damaged fruit into one box for using immediately, the larger fruits in another box and the medium-sized ones in a third box.
For home use two grades only are required as a rule, i.e. the good and the specked. By the way, when picking, never leave diseased fruit on the tree or this will be a source of trouble later, breeding, as it may, the spores of brown rot. Special pears being grown on cordons or espaliers may be protected by using little muslin bags which are put over the individual fruits and tied to the spurs. Thus the birds cannot peck, the wasps cannot bite, and, as the fruit ripens, it falls into the bag where it is held and comes to no harm.
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