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<blockquote data-quote="tb26" data-source="post: 7835223" data-attributes="member: 164337"><p>To answer a few of the above.</p><p></p><p>Equipment wise, we have a virgo electric scratter, it's a beast. It will do us for a few years I should think. We have an in bottle pasturising bath and two presses. Bottling is the next thing we need, we used to bottle our milk and have a few milkmen who are very interested in the juice. Cold storage we still have.</p><p></p><p>RV roger have supplied us the rootstock, very good to deal with.</p><p></p><p>We have quite a few of the above mentioned varieties, spartan, sunset, discovery, ashmeads kernal, james greive, howgate wonder, fiesa. </p><p></p><p>We have a mix of earlies and lates, all in a rough picking order. It worked quite well this year. My plan is to take 4/5 of our best and propergate them into a new orchard over the next few years. </p><p></p><p>Scab we only had a few of the cookers effected and some of the granny smiths, i've leaf blown over the winters and spring and it really helped this year, with a homemade tree spray. I'm going to be on the moth problem more next year.</p><p></p><p>One big thing I'm looking at is containers for collection and trailer for the bins/containers. So any suggestions would be great, preferably the type that can picked up with the forks. I like the idea of converting an old combine header trailer into an orchard trailer.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="tb26, post: 7835223, member: 164337"] To answer a few of the above. Equipment wise, we have a virgo electric scratter, it's a beast. It will do us for a few years I should think. We have an in bottle pasturising bath and two presses. Bottling is the next thing we need, we used to bottle our milk and have a few milkmen who are very interested in the juice. Cold storage we still have. RV roger have supplied us the rootstock, very good to deal with. We have quite a few of the above mentioned varieties, spartan, sunset, discovery, ashmeads kernal, james greive, howgate wonder, fiesa. We have a mix of earlies and lates, all in a rough picking order. It worked quite well this year. My plan is to take 4/5 of our best and propergate them into a new orchard over the next few years. Scab we only had a few of the cookers effected and some of the granny smiths, i've leaf blown over the winters and spring and it really helped this year, with a homemade tree spray. I'm going to be on the moth problem more next year. One big thing I'm looking at is containers for collection and trailer for the bins/containers. So any suggestions would be great, preferably the type that can picked up with the forks. I like the idea of converting an old combine header trailer into an orchard trailer. [/QUOTE]
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