From: songbird@anthive.com   
      
   Bob F wrote:   
      
   > At the suggestion of my wife's older aunt back east, we tried the below   
   > solution this year, and drastically lessened apple damage from apple   
   > maggots and codling moths. She claims it has worked for her for years.   
   >   
   > Mix together 1 cup vinegar, 1 cup sugar, and 1 banana peel. put it all   
   > in a plastic gallon milk jug and add water to make it 1/3 - 1/2 full.   
   > Hang jugs without lids in each tree, more for larger trees. I use 2-3   
   > for each tree I have. 3, for instance in a tree 15 feet tall and 20 feet   
   > in diameter.   
   >   
   > I tied the jugs by their handles to branches 1" or larger in diameter   
   > with 1/4" rope.   
   >   
   > I put up the jugs shortly after fruit set.   
   >   
   > Lots of dead flies and other insects drowned in the jugs now.   
   >   
   > We pressed apples for cider yesterday, and were amazed how few of the   
   > apples showed damage.   
      
     apple cider vinegar or distilled vinegar?  or will any vinegar do?   
      
     i'm all in favor of not spraying a bunch of poisons on the trees.   
      
     i was going to start a cider apple patch out back but i never got   
   around to transplanting my apple tree saplings (that i grew from   
   seeds) and eventually had to remove them from the garden i had them   
   started in because they were going to take over.   
      
     you must be fairly far north or have a pretty early apple to be   
   making cider already.  :)   
      
      
     songbird   
      
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