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Article: How do you pick avocados from tall trees? With ingenuity and pole pickers?
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- Sunset
- Article date:
- April 1, 1986
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How do you pick avocados from tall trees? With ingenuity and pole pickers
Harvesting avocados from tall trees calls for a steady hand, a strong ladder, and-- especially--the right tool.
When we asked Sunset readers to share their avocado-growing experiences (see pages 118 through 123 of the March 1985 Sunset), most respondents agreed that harvesting the fruit can be a twofold challenge: first, to reach the fruit ("a helicopter would come in handy,' one reader wrote), and second, to find ways to use bumper crops (see box below).
Avocado trees don't often give up their bounty gracefully; fruits can dangle from limbs 40 feet in the air, they drop ...