From: bobnospam@gmail.com   
      
   On 8/10/2021 3:56 AM, songbird wrote:   
   > 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?   
      
   We used cheap white vinegar.   
      
   >   
   >    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   
   >   
      
   This was my early tree in Seattle. Other varieties come much later. My   
   neighbors "Green Transparent" was done a couple weeks ago.   
      
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