Learn how to know when to pick apples and enjoy perfectly flavored fruit ready for eating, cooking or making into cider.

A sign that the apples are going to detach simply can be when you see lots of windfall apples on the ground around trees.

It may take more than one visit to pick all the apples of a tree, and that is because not all the fruits will ripen at the same time. When they ripen depends on the amount of light they get. Start ...

Different apples are ready to pick at different times during apple-picking season. If you've got a particular type of apple ...

Autumn brings yearly anticipation of ripe pears and apples. But how do you know when it’s the right time to pull them off the ...

Apple picking season in Julian has been delayed this year at some orchards due to weather conditions, surprising visitors who expected orchards to be open by now.

Sunset Orchard Farm, one of the oldest orchards in Rhode Island, offers 29 varieties of apples to pick from across 18 acres.

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