Bag apples before you pick them

In Japan and Korea, peaches, plums and apples are grown successfully without pesticides. How do they do it? By bagging the apples while still on the tree.

Apples bagged on the tree

Paper bags or plastic bags will work. Apparently the growth is not harmed even if rain water collects in the bag. Thirty to forty apples can be bagged in an hour on a backyard tree. This is a lot less work than trying to spray every 10 days during the growth and obviously a little more environmentally friendly.

But what will the neighbors think? Well, that experiment start next week as I bag a few of my trees.