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This can also be seen by looking at the rows that are already stretched in the juicers. Ingrida Nagrockienė visited the drying gardens and apple presses.
He no longer works at night
Dozens of apples began to dry out in the Dembava nursery during the heat of apple growing. More gardeners received such a glimpse. Lithuania’s unpredictable weather is believed to have injected cloves into certain varieties of trees.
Still, apple growers say this year’s season is not the worst. This can also be seen by looking at the tails in the juicers.
The first apples appeared on market stalls and shops in early August and, by early September, they are already ripening in almost all orchards.
Whoever had a richer apple crop this year is already making their way to the juicers. The working year already begins in them.
“We started working at the beginning of the month and we are already in. We are doing quite well when the weather is better, we have a lot of people, ”says Vitalijus Pranskūnas, representative of the Obuolių namai company in Panevėžys.
Until three years ago, this print shop even operated at night during the season, serving a large number of customers. Now there is no such load, but this year, according to V. Pranskūnas, a little more work than last year.
Apple pressure
© Photo by I. Stulgaitė-Kriukienė
Short season
“We hear that this year is not an apple. But juicing services are becoming more in demand than last year. People bring apples in different ways: some and 15 bags, others only 2,” says V. Pranskūnas.
From the bag of apples, according to him, you can squeeze about 20 liters of juice. Some like to mix them with carrots, oranges.
V. Pranskūnas is happy that customers are becoming more understanding and no longer carrying dirty apples, although last year they received fruit poured into a fertilizer bag.
“We have been working at Panevėžys for seven years, usually the same clients come every year. Sometimes they get feedback and make amends,” says the interlocutor.
Juice press prices, he said, haven’t changed since last year and are similar across the city.
Five-liter juice bags cost 2.5 euros, three-liter bags 2.3 euros.
“There is no competition for our business in Panevėžys, but when there are many apples, there is enough work for everyone. There are still many apples this year, but we can see that the pressure season will not last long, until the end of September. It used to be until October 15, ”thinks Vitalijus, and guesses that the apples could have fallen at the same time this season.
The work year itself
The juice press yard in Staniūnai is already full of bags. Kamilė, an employee of the Savos Sultys company that operates here, said the day’s work was hampered by unexpected failures in the water supply.
The juicers wash the apples brought in themselves with hot water.
“We’ve been working since the end of August, but it started hauling more apples this week alone,” the employee said.
Most, according to her, customers come from the city. People transport apples to Staniūnai in various bags from their gardens, pressing them into a bag with pumpkins and berries. A customer wanted apples mixed with beets.
Five-liter juice bags here cost 3 euros, three-liter bags 2.3 euros. 30 ct costs 1 liter of juice in its own container.
For long queues, customers of this press do not have to wait yet.
“But if there are more apples, you may have to come pick them the next day,” says the employee, adding that people praise the summer apple harvest, but this is more cautious with later varieties.
Apple pressure
© Photo by I. Stulgaitė-Kriukienė
I can’t stand winter
Gytis Kuliešius, director of the Dembava nursery, which has been in operation for three decades, is not complaining about this year’s apple harvest. Now the company works for itself.
However, a large garden area surprised the growers. A few dozen apples with all the apples on the branches began to dry on the eyes.
“Such a phenomenon can be massive this year and not just for us”, believes G. Kuliešius.
More gardeners who faced a similar problem also turned to Dembava Nursery for advice. According to the director of the nursery, some varieties of apples could not withstand the changes in the Lithuanian climate.
“For ten years there were no usual cold winters in Lithuania, and this year, when pressure was put, the most sensitive species of fruit trees were destroyed,” explained G. Kuliešius.
Even 18-year-old apples are frozen in the Dembava nursery. The trees turned green, blossomed, fruited, and withered in the spring.
However, the company’s 20- to 30-year-old fruit trees have weathered the elements well.
“The winter has affected more younger varieties brought from Western Europe, which may be more productive but have not suffered from a severe cold,” says the director.
Nursery owners in other districts of Panevėžys and Anykščiai were not very happy with the apple season. Many gardeners claim that gardens have closed on average this year, even more disappointing than uplifting.
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