In my back garden is a solitary apple tree, only about 10ft tall.
As it is a single specimen it doesn't ever get heavily laden with fruit and this year has been no exception.
Only a couple of weeks ago I was outside on one of the sunnier days and was musing on eating one of the apples as there were more than a dozen ready to pick, but decided against it as I have no idea of how edible or not they actually are. For all I know they could be bitter cookers.
Anyways....wind forward to last night and I am outside for a smoke and I notice just 3 apples on the tree!?
Looking around I see one apple on the floor.
But where have my other apples gone?
My back garden has a sturdy 7 foot high fence around it and no access other than through 2 padlocked gates, and you can't see into my garden from the pavement that runs past outside. This is not the sort of area in which one would have people climbing into ones garden solely to 'go scrumping' even if anyone knew I had an apple tree.
I live alone and rarely have any visitors.
We don't have any animals that are likely to have taken a fancy to my fruit, or to have pinched my pommes.
I can only think that there must be a particularly muscly squirrel locally which has decided to grab my granny smiths?
As it is a single specimen it doesn't ever get heavily laden with fruit and this year has been no exception.
Only a couple of weeks ago I was outside on one of the sunnier days and was musing on eating one of the apples as there were more than a dozen ready to pick, but decided against it as I have no idea of how edible or not they actually are. For all I know they could be bitter cookers.
Anyways....wind forward to last night and I am outside for a smoke and I notice just 3 apples on the tree!?
Looking around I see one apple on the floor.
But where have my other apples gone?
My back garden has a sturdy 7 foot high fence around it and no access other than through 2 padlocked gates, and you can't see into my garden from the pavement that runs past outside. This is not the sort of area in which one would have people climbing into ones garden solely to 'go scrumping' even if anyone knew I had an apple tree.
I live alone and rarely have any visitors.
We don't have any animals that are likely to have taken a fancy to my fruit, or to have pinched my pommes.
I can only think that there must be a particularly muscly squirrel locally which has decided to grab my granny smiths?