Keep the stalks on when picking fruit
Janet (my legendary new aquaintance) tells me that when I pick the apples from our tree (Cox’s apparently according to Janet) or the tomatoes & chillis from our plants we should keep a bit of stalk attached which will help the fruit to keep.
Removing the stalk when picking creates a wound in the fruit and will be the point at which infection or moulds enter it. If you wish to keep fruit after harvesting you need to keep the stalks on.
Janet wisdom - plenty more to come when she returns from her 10 day walking trip to Bulgaria I hope.