Summer of extremes has major consequences for fruit harvest: “Too many fluctuations and it becomes jam”

These rapidly changing weather conditions are also bad for the apples, Schilderinck explains. That is why this is taken into account today when pruning the apple trees: “Normally you want apples in the sun, but if there is unexpectedly a lot of sun, white spots appear on the outside. Then you can throw the apples away. That is why we are deliberately leaving covering leaves hanging today when pruning.”