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  Nick Steele February 5, 2009 at 1:49pm

  Fereday + saw + timber......
  
  Seriously, I've often toyed with making one of these, it looks like dead simple carpentry, and should be much cheaper than buying ready made.
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  Cat Fereday February 9, 2009 at 11:13pm

  Have you read my blog about Fereday building the planter????? I'd need Nick Knowles and the St John's ambulance on standby, a blindfold (for me), enough timber to make 5 apple racks (just to get one), and a divorce lawyer! Blessed with many skills though he is, wood work is not really one of them.
  
  Nick Steele said:

  Fereday + saw + timber......
  
  Seriously, I've often toyed with making one of these, it looks like dead simple carpentry, and should be much cheaper than buying ready made.
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  Phil Voice February 10, 2009 at 6:53am

  I can make a rustic apple rack for half the Harrod Horticulture price Cat but you would have to collect ;-0)
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  Helen Gazeley February 11, 2009 at 6:32pm

  Hi, Cat
  
  Try www.selections.com. I haven't ordered from them, but they have a couple of nice-looking storage racks that might appeal and they're certainly cheaper than the one you've found.
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  Cat Fereday February 11, 2009 at 8:28pm

  Helen Gazeley said:

  Hi, Cat
  
  Try www.selections.com. I haven't ordered from them, but they have a couple of nice-looking storage racks that might appeal and they're certainly cheaper than the one you've found.

  
  Hazel, thanks for this looks just the job!
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  Cat Fereday February 11, 2009 at 8:29pm

  Philip Voice said:

  I can make a rustic apple rack for half the Harrod Horticulture price Cat but you would have to collect ;-0)

  
  Phil,
  
  Once we get out passports sorted, we may hold you to that.... in the meantime, Hazel's suggested website looks to have just the solution we need... have I told you how great this site is recently????!!!!
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  steve loftus February 11, 2009 at 10:44pm

  apples ,in a rack!!!!!! i think not.......unless that rack is in a cold dark place,with marble/stone shelves to keep those apples nice and fresh (you have to slow their metabolism down)...9 years on a fruit farm.
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  Lawncare-4u.co.uk February 12, 2009 at 10:46am

  make one out of pieces of wood???????????????????? £250 ???????? nice wood cut to size from timber yard? wood and screws= £30 ................
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  Cat Fereday February 13, 2009 at 10:38pm

  Okay, you're now my fruitfarm guru Mr L.... my father-in-law is an crazy for apples and apple trees... what is the perfect gift... other than another apple tree or a cookbook?
  
  
  steve loftus said:

  apples ,in a rack!!!!!! i think not.......unless that rack is in a cold dark place,with marble/stone shelves to keep those apples nice and fresh (you have to slow their metabolism down)...9 years on a fruit farm.
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  steve loftus February 15, 2009 at 2:13pm

  larders were designed as cool dark places to store and keep foods fresh,hence the marble shelves,which always seem to stay cool/cold.the racks i have seen look good,well built but very over priced,you could get pine shelves from b+q for £25 and would do the same job. if reck is in the kitchen they wont stay fresh very long,a garage would be much better,would keep twice as fresh.best place....old air-raid shelter on marble shelves or a co2 controlled storage facility lol,as for a present,not trees or books........try calling blackmoor estate orchards to see if they would give a tour of their 300 acres of orchards and packing and storage facilities,plus a trip across the road to the nursery. gu336bs